Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.

If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.

Either you run the day or the day runs you..

Don't wish it were easier. Wish you were better.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Focus on the solution, not on the problem.

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

Poor people have big TV's. Rich people have big libraries.

Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high.

Spend a moment every day thinking of someone to love.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

As a New Yorker, this is what you do: you confront, jab, and slap, sometimes wrongly, then smile and forget about it.

The only thing I feel passionate about is my wife.

Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly.

Men rush to arms for slight causes, or no cause at all, and once taken up there is no longer any respect for law, divine or human.

To be entirely at leisure for one day is to be for one day an immortal

My head’s under water but I’m breathing fine

Gonna rain like a cow pissin' on a flat rock" [drugstore clerk to detective Virgil Flowers] Dark of the Moon, p.7

Impunity should be condemned in any corner of the world.