Four steps to achievement: plan purposefully prepare prayerfully proceed positively pursue persistently.

Adversity causes some men to break others to break records.

Failure is delay but not defeat. It is a temporary detour not a dead-end street.

God gave you a gift of 86 400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you"?

Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.

When you praise God in pain, it is preparing you for provision.

Book collecting is a full-time occupation, and one wouldn't get far if one took time off for frivolities like reading.

Ye might no know this about me…”

Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject.

I also hope that I am occasionally involved in projects that touch other people in ways that make their lives a little better, more interesting for the moment, that makes them think.

Raise your glass if you are wrong in all the right ways.

Aspiring beggary is wretchedness itself.

The day effort ceased, I also ceased. Because you cannot exist without effort, and you cannot exist without desire, and you cannot exist without striving.