There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail.

The tough-minded individual is astute and discerning. He has a strong austere quality that makes for firmness of purpose and solidness of commitment.

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it

Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and economic change.

The stern compression of circumstances, the twinges of adversity, the spur of slights and taunts in early years, are needed to evoke that ruthless fixity of purpose and tenacious wit without which great actions are seldom accomplished.

For what purpose humanity is there should not even concern us: why you are here, that you should ask yourself: and if you have no ready answer, then set for yourself goals, high and noble goals, and perish in pursuit of them!