“Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them. Every one must be challenged. A day dawns, quite like other days; in it, a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us”

“Our business in life is not to get ahead of other people, but to get ahead of ourselves.”

“To have failed is to have striven, to have striven is to have grown.”

“Later it will occur to him that checking your feelings, holding them inside where they burn, is what a leader has to do. Every day.”

“Great opportunities may come once in a lifetime, but small opportunities surround us every day.”

“...in their millenial and long-lived patience they knew quite well how, in a hundred years, or a thousand years' time, or else, perhaps, tomorrow, in an hour's time, for it was all a gamble, a million to one chance, but all the same there was a chance that if they kept on shaking their chains, one day, some day, the clasps upon the shackles would part.”

“How come you don't work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did. How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged fighting for the eight-hour day for you.”