There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. –Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. –Albert Einstein

The doctors of the future will give no medicine but will interest patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease. –Thomas A. Edison

Look only for accomplishment; you could not desire or accept less. Know that the only creative power in this universe is mind; therefore, fulfillment is the result of mental concentration. –Alfred J. Parker