It is a point that I repeat over and over again in teaching public speaking. It is not so much what you say as it is the tone and manner in which you say it that makes a lasting impression.

A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life: not on what you don't want.

A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done.

It appears that no one is so unfortunate that he or she is exempt from spending cuts, while at the same time no one is so fortunate as to be ineligible for a tax cut

it is only those who persevere to the end that succeed.

When the imagination takes over, the second hand could be the hour hand to a creator of stories.

When I read the ghastly lines of tragedy darkly penned into my life, I turn and notice that the pen in my hand is wet.

I had today so what does tomorrow matter!

While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.

It's important for me to let my fans know I really don't care. I'm confident.

When I met scientists, I found them to be as various as any other group of people.

I've learned to keep things simple. Look at your choices, pick the best one, then go to work with all your heart.

Everyday begins like a blank chalkboard, on which each one of us can write the poem of our present and our dreams for the future.