"Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success." - William J. H. Boetcker
"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us." - Alexander Graham Bell
“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man." ~Mark Twain, The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson