Failure is not the opposite of success, inaction is.

When people say "If I only knew then what I know now" makes me wonder why they aren't using that wisdom now.

You must embrace change before change erases you.

Planning and perseverance will bring your mission to fruition.

Don't be handcuffed by bad habits when you hold the key to unlock the greatness inside of you.

Nothing is born into this world without labor.

Don't ask for directions if you're not going to start the car.

Your calling is calling you, are you answering?

If you think someone or something other than yourself is responsible for your happiness or success, I'd guess you're not that happy or successful.

If all the world's a stage, I suggest you start performing at your best.

Achieving success is a challenge but so is struggling so you may as well choose success.

Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space program.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.

You love me. You ignore me. You save my life, then you cook my mother into soap.

When I graduated from the University of Pennsylvania I had a baby in one arm, a diploma in the other and I didn't know where I was going in life.

... sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.

I've always been attracted to guys with big brains.

Obviously, you have to know what you need now and what you will soon need, then hire or promote from within to meet those needs.

Yes, I heard my people singing!-in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft and Sunday morning pews-and my soul was filled with their harmonies.

For the time being, technologies are colonizing our body through implants. We started with human implants, but research leads us to microtechnological implants.