"Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility."

"Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out."

"The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success."

"One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals."

"A love of nature is a consolation against failure."

"To love truly means recognizing that every failure is just a stepping stone to greatness."

"We can all put weight on or lose weight."

"Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting."