"A diamond is a piece of coal..." - Quote by Thomas Edison

“The great trouble is that the preachers get the children from six to seven years of age and then it is almost impossible to do anything with them.”

“The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.”

“There's a way to do it better - find it.”

“When you are tempted to give up, your breakthrough is probably just around the corner.”

“What you persist in doing gets easier. The task hasn't changed, but your ability to do it has increased.”

“It is easy to get to the top after you get through the crowd at the bottom.”

“I do labor - it's part of the process. Writing is no easier today than it was in the beginning: writing well is very hard to do. Always.”

“To succeed,all I need to do is suffer.”

“My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.”