Having the courage to make decisions and take action. Never be afraid to fail. You have nothing to fear if you have prepared to the best of your ability.

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Passion is momentary love is enduring.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character.

Ford Prefect suppressed a little giggle of evil satisfaction, realized that he had no reason to suppress it, and laughed out loud, a wicked laugh.

In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world.

I hated the gnawing longing that accompanied having everything.

Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God.

Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.

Time is given us that we may take care for eternity; and eternity will not be too long to regret the loss of our time if we have misspent it.

that if you don't read nobody does

But you can't truly hate a man without loving him first, and there's always a trace of that love left over.

Sometimes, I think, our impulses come not from the past, but from the future.

I've always been at war with the guitar. All vocalists are fighting a war with the electric rhythm guitar.