Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies. – Roderick Thorp, Rainbow Drive

Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failure. In the assurance of strength there is strength, and, they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers. – Christian Nevell Bovee