The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition， when suffered to exert itself with freedom and security， is so powerful a principle that it is alone， and without any assistance， not only capable of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity but of surmounting a hundred impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often encumbers its operations.

I wanted to create something that would make my community proud, something that would show we can do great things with our own hands.

The severe morals of the early Romans produced a race of men who were neither superstitiously devout nor philosophically skeptical.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.

成功不在于奖项，而在于旅程和成长。

It’s funny. The things that are most important to you are often the hardest to talk about.