"For success, attitude is equally as important as ability." - Harry F. Banks

"'A cucumber is bitter.' Throw it away. 'There are briars in the road.' Turn aside from them. This is enough. Do not add, 'And why were such things made in the world?'" - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

"Take away your opinion, and then there is taken away the complaint, 'I have been harmed.' Take away the complaint, 'I have been harmed,' and the harm is taken away." - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

"Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one." - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

"I can live for two months on a good compliment." - Twain, Mark [pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910)