Character: the grandest thing in the world.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.

It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'

What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort.

I wish, when I was first born, the first thing I said was "Quote" so the last thing I said before I died would be "Unquote.

Statecraft and kingship were not for the faint of heart

Make a change! It's all about you! You may not be able to prevent the bird from flying over your head

She lived frugally, but her meals were the only things on which she deliberately spent her money. She never compromised on the quality of her groceries, and drank only good-quality wines.

They kill hundreds of people, those pilots. I would have loved to have flown the plane that dropped the bomb on Japan. A couple of dudes killed hundreds of thousands. That f****** rules! Yeah!

I had a very close relationship with [Brian] Mulroney.

Okay, who wants to see me take off Snivelly's pants?

Let me go to the house of the Father.

The test of a writer is whether you want to read him again years after he should by the rules be dated.

The picture is not made by the photographer, the picture is more good or less good in function of the relationship that you have with the people you photograph.