“No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.” — John Locke

“If you haven’t all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don’t have that you wouldn’t want.” — Unknown

“Stubbornness we deprecate, Firmness we condone, The former is our neighbors trait, The latter is our own.” — John Wooden