"Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that's where you will find success.“

"I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go about it, and make trial after trial, until it comes."

No one likes to be hurt or slighted; no one likes to be ignored or made to feel unloved and unwanted. So why not treat your fellow human beings with love and respect? Try to understand them and be willing to go that second mile with them if necessary. Be very tolerant, very, very patient and very loving. It is the way you would like to be treated yourself, so live as you would wish others to live. Be a good example, but never do it because you feel it is expected of you. Do it because you want to do it and long with all your heart to give of your best in everything you do, say and think. The greater your desire, the easier it will be to fulfil it. Never be satisfied with anything mediocre or half-hearted. See that everything you do is of the very highest, that your motives are pure, and that there is nothing selfish or self-centred in anything you do.