Big doors swing on little hinges.

Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try, and keep trying, for there is nothing to lose by trying and a great deal to gain if successful. By all means TRY! Do it NOW!!!

Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.

When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.

Keep your mind on your objective, and persist until you succeed. Study, think, and plan.

Reading is one of the greatest gifts given to humankind.

We measure the value of a civilized society by the number of Libraries it opens, not the number it closes down.

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

When one is innocent of pain, of the havoc it can wreak, one is never cruel. Cruelty is born of pain, of a need to hurt in turn.

The magic formula is there is no magic formula.

In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.

The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.

A crime is a crime irrespective of the birth marks of the criminal.

But whate'er I am, nor I nor any man that but man is, With nothing shall be pleased 'til he be eased With being nothing.