The secret to success? There is no secret—just hard work and persistence.

I do not know what I may appear to the world， but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore， and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary， whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

I'm a winner, and I like to win.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

"Books are like rivers that flow into the sea of our consciousness."