Can't make chicken salad out of chicken noodle

The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves.

I've been into the habit of freezing white grapes and using them as a snack. Instead of eating peanuts or popcorn or something like that or pretzels, I just eat the white grapes.

You're never a loser until you quit trying.

I don't believe in living in the past. Living in the past is for cowards. If you live in the past, you die in the past.

Effort without talent is a depressing situation... but talent without effort is a tragedy.

If you're not in the parade, you watch the parade. That's life.

If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have given us arms.

Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

Losers quit when they're tired. Winners quit when they've won.

Motivation comes from within each individual. It's a personal thing. It's pride, guts, desire, whatever you want to call it; some people have it in their bellies, and some don't.

No man returns from Satan’s fire read to dance a reel.

Poetry is a rhythmical piece of writing that leaves the reader feeling that life is a little richer than before, a little more full of wonder, beauty, or just plain delight.

Bad writing is bad not just because the language is humdrum, but the quality of the observation is so poor.

The individual who signs the check has the ultimate power.

It economics is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique of thinking which helps its possessor to draw correct conclusions.

I'd like to put on buckskins and a ponytail and go underwater with a reed, hiding from the Indians... To me, that's sexy!

An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said to me, We Jews are just ordinary human beings. Only a bit more so!

Your way begins at the other side. Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape. Walk out like someone suddenly born into color. Do it now.

My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr King in the 60s, and he's very much for women's rights.

O Monsieur de Sergis, how important a matter is submission of spirit to a superior!