Samuel Smiles

Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.

He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.