A life that hasn't a definite plan is likely to become driftwood.

The thrill, believe me, is as much in the battle as in the victory.

The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.

Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving.

The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people

Nobody can be a success if they don't love their work.

Research: the distance between an idea and its realization.

Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.

The main thing we can learn from The Lord of the Rings is that we who are in a position to save the world (by which I mean all of us) do so primarily to save our friends.

I had an occasional flash of understanding, but then got selfishly wrapped up again in my own problems and pleasures.

The instruction at Edinburgh was altogether by lectures, and these were intolerably dull, with the exception of those on chemistry.

Our beliefs become the rules we live by, and then here's what happens: We make ourselves right.

One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida.

There's nothing better than listening to music that compliments my mood.

It is always hardest for me to write a book that has kids in it close to my kids' ages. It is always hardest for me to write a book that has kids in it close to my kids' ages.

As someone who played music and never got famous, and remembers little fragments of that, I don't remember life as a dramatic flamboyant thing.

Disagreements don't cause disunity, a lack of forgiveness does.

Now the time is come, That France must veil her lofty-plumed crest, And let her head fall into England's lap.