I will embrace today's difficult tasks, take off my coat, and make dust in the world.

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

Victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

You will achieve your grand dream, a day at a time, so set goals for each day.

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again.

I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

I like the idea of the object, the relic. And I see it as a time machine too or a device you plug into a socket that activates a sound and light show.

Every time there's a cut in the action, we joke and dance around, there's show tunes and fart noises.

Leadership is action, not position

There were too many ears that listened for others besides themselves, and too many tongues that wagged to those they shouldn't.

If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. Lawrence, or John Keats. They can teach you everything you need to know about writing.

For those who are lost, there will always be cities that feel like home.

I feel kind of like the black sheep in Congress, but here I am.

What's the orbital velocity of the moon?

Not even for a million dollars would I paint a tree.