Before I can embrace freedom, I should be aware of what duties I have.

It's not whether you got knocked down; it's whether you get back up.

The difference between a successful person and others is not lack of strength not a lack of knowledge but rather a lack of will.

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character.

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.

Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.

Stop existing and start living!

Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives.

In order not to feel time's horrid fardel bruise your shoulders, grinding you into the earth, get drunk and stay that way. On what? On wine, poetry, virtue, whatever. But get drunk!

The farmer works the soil. The agriculturalist works the farmer.

It's important to write a mystery novel where the takeaway is not a giveaway - where something could be read over and over.

Work isn't really work for me. I hate to tell you this, but I've never liked the weekend in my life. I was enthusiastic about Monday morning from the day I left college.

I cannot stress the importance of pausing to take a few deep breaths throughout the day. It's simple and effective.

Hat = wizard, wizard = hat. Everything else is frippery.