It is normal to enjoy praise and dislike criticism. True character is when you prevent either from affecting you in a negative matter.

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Passion is momentary love is enduring.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character.

This was the power of the story weaver, Nell realized. An ability to conjure color so that all else seemed to fade.

This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances.

I think I know now why we are occupying Iraq. In case we have to sell America and move to a smaller country.

Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time more completely and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of employment whatsoever

... when we are misunderstood it is always our own fault. What the reader wants most of all is to be able to grasp what we think; but you loftily refuse to comply.

So long as you believe in some truth you do not believe in yourself. You are a servant. A man of faith.

Progress is a choice. Job creation is a choice. Whether we give our children a future of more or a future of less - this, too, is a choice.

I always liked to chase the girls. Parkinson's stops all that. Now I might have a chance to go to heaven.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

I pride myself in taking care of my mind, body and soul, and not just through exercise.