It is absolutely essential to hang in there—especially when you feel most discouraged.

When you increase in learning and education, you increase your ability to act, and you have a chance to improve your circumstances.

If you REALLY want to know what another person is like, notice how he or she treats the less fortunate or those without position or title.

The impact of your vision, while quiet and ever present, will be astounding over time as it becomes a reality.

You steadily grow into becoming your best as you choose to be accountable and accept responsibility for improvement.

Live your life in such a way that when a video coverage is taken of you either in light or in the darkness, it can receive an applause when it is shown in your chapel for everyone to view!

—I don't want to lose you —Then why are you the one that keeps letting go?

Kitty: I thought your ladyship was ill. I wanted to help you. Lady deWinter: I ill? Do you take me for a weak woman? When I am insulted I do not feel ill - I avenge myself. Do you hear?

In order to see where we are going, we not only must remember where we have been, but we must understand where we have been.

Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.

Two or three tons of rock can really get you down-and keep you there.

I am in the world to change the world.

Wonder is the salt of the earth.

Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or a private jet.

Drop the mind and the divine. God is not an object, it is a merger. The mind resists a merger, the mind is against surrender; the mind is very cunning and calculating.