“In your temporary failure there is no evidence that you may not yet be a better scholar, and a more successful man in the great struggle of life, than many others, who have entered college more easily.”

“A great man will experience more failures than successes. If we lived for the successes, we would have all killed ourselves by now.”

“The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure.”

“We who are here to-night are here as the servants of the guests of a great University, a University of knowledge, scholarship, and intellect. You do well to be proud of it. But I have wondered whether there may not be colleges and faculties of other experiences than yours, and whether even now in the far corners of the continents powers not yours are being brought to fruition. I have myself been something of a traveller, and every time I return to England I wonder whether the games of those children do not hold more intense life than the talk of your learned men-- a more intense passion for discovery, a greater power of exploration, new raptures, unknown paths of glorious knowledge; whether you may not yet sit at the feet of the natives of the Amazon or the Zambesi: whether the fakirs and the herdsmen, the witch-doctors may not enter the kingdom of man before you”

“Some people believe they are destined for a life of continuous struggle. However, if you have a desire to live a more empowering life, creating an abundance of joy & easily attracting success to you.”

“The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.”