When you do common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation -- veneer isn't worth anything.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life - but there was no one to tell me.