2395  "CONQUER YOUR SELF.THEN THE WHOLE UNIVERS WILL BE YOUR'S"

1528  Energy and persistence conquer all

1613  Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

1150  Power is energy in use.

701  Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.