Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.

Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running.

Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there.

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.

Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have.

F-E-A-R has two meanings: 'Forget Everything And Run' or 'Face Everything And Rise.' The choice is yours.

There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.

Losses are comparative only imagination makes them of any moment.

This is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

Poetry is an act of distillation. It takes contingency samples, is selective. It telescopes time. It focuses what most often floods past us in a polite blur.

the only perfect people are dead people, because their the only ones who can't make mistakes!

Don’t talk about the way you are. Talk about the way you want to be.

I just hope I'm remembered as a good blues musician.

Nature as it is-nature with nothing selected or discarded from it-cannot become a work of art.

Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat up with the window wide open, listening to the discourse of two amorous thrushes.

Bernard Herrmann was a genius, a great, great composer.

I've always felt that I was talking to one person. But I've never envisioned who that one person is.