Persist......................................

     "The universe does not favor the greedy, the dishonest, the vicious, although on the mere surface it may sometimes appear to be so;  it helps the honest, the magnanimous, the virtuous.   All the great teaches of the ages have declared this in varying forms, and to prove and know it a man has but to persist in making himself more and more virtuous by lifting up his thoughts."

     "Achievement, of whatever kind, is the crown of effort, the diadem of thought.  By the aid of self-control, resolution, purity, righteousness, and well-directed thought a man ascends;  by the aid of animality, indolence, impurity, corruption, and confusion of thought, a man descends."

-James Allen, as excerpted from As a Man Thinketh