Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing. - Doris Kearns Goodwin

On a hot summer night in July 1836, an organized mob broke into the shop where the abolitionist weekly was printed, dismantled the press, and tore up the edition that was about to be circulated.

When resentment and contention threatened to destroy his administration, he refused to be provoked by petty grievances, to submit to jealousy, or to brood over perceived slights. Through the appalling pressures he faced day after day, he retained an unflagging faith in his country’s cause.

More and more it seems to me that about the best thing in life is to have a piece of work worth doing and then to do it well.