How can I develop myself into the grandest possible manhood?

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.

It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'

What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort.

Hebrew is deeply inspired by other languages.

I also believe that if we're serious about change, we need to have a real discussion about public financing for congressional elections.

Confession is a sacred rite enhanced by allegory, exaggeration, and lies.

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

The tragedy wasn’t that Stanford White died, but that I lived.

My political ambition is not worth the blood of any Nigerian

We should not allow wealthy people, including corporate criminals, to hide their assets and avoid paying their bills.

But who can distinguish between falling in love and imagining falling in love? Even genuinely falling in love is an act of the imagination.

Quite frankly, even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.

I feel sorry for people who don't drink or do drugs. Because someday they're going to be in a hospital bed, dying, and they won't know why.