I have been Merlin wandering in the woods Of a far country, where the winds waken Unnatural voices , my mind broken By a sudden acquaintance with man's rage.

When the need to succeed is as bad as the need to breathe, then you’ll be successful.

I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

There is no substitute for Hard Work.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

The enemies of a people are those who keep them in ignorance.

Here's lumbos. Where misties swaddlum, where misches lodge none, where mystries pour kind on, O sleepy! So be yet!

Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom—ah the soul-destroying boredom—of long days of mild content.

A lot of people feel that the realm of poetry and the realm of the lyric is personal feeling and should rise above politics, which, in fact, good poetry has never done.

If a player leaves Marquette and doesn't have some of my blood in him, then I don't think I've done a good job.

There's an inherent thing in me where, if things are going too smooth, I'll sabotage the hell out of them, just to make the music more of a sanctuary.

To kill a citizen of our own country is evil, but to kill a citizen of another country is 'good.'

If you ever want to study acting you should be around an enlightened person for a while, because all they do is play roles, since they no longer have a self.

There are some dreams that get stuck between your teeth when you sleep, so that when you open your mouth to yawn awake they fly right out of you.

When facing symphonic orchestras which have played some works five thousands times, you have nothing to do.

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.