It's always better to face the truth, no matter how uncomfortable, than to continue coddling a lie.

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Remember. Every day, some ordinary person does something extraordinary. Today, it's your turn.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.

Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that's the difference.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.

We aren't where we want to be; we aren't where we ought to be; but thank goodness we aren't where we used to be.

Don't expect life to serve you what you expect. Just enjoy the buffet.

I don't want what I can't have. I don't want to want what I can't have. -Nate

RIMER, n. A poet regarded with indifference or disesteem.

The great majority of men and women, in ordinary times, pass through life without ever contemplating or criticising, as a whole, either their own conditions or those of the world at large.

In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

You could know the what of something forever and never discover the why.

She who laughs last may not invariably laugh best, but she does laugh.

I believe that - love is a choice. I believe that we love, that if I'm forced to love you then I don't know that I've really loved you.

What exactly is mathematics? Many have tried but nobody has really succeeded in defining mathematics; it is always something else.