"The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion."

"What this power is I cannot say all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it."

"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus."

"The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success."

"And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together."

"Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem."

"Success comes in waves."