It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

Our breath is brief, and being so Let's make our heaven here below, And lavish kindness as we go.

A promise made is a debt unpaid.

Just draw on your grit; it's so easy to quit - It's the keeping your chin up that's hard.

Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.

No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.

The Wanderlust has got me... by the belly-aching fire

This is the law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; that surely the weak shall perish, and only the fit survive.

Now a promise made is a debt unpaid, and the trail has its own stern code.

If you never stop trying you'll never give up. If you never give up you'll never stop trying.

Man truly achieves his full human condition when he produces without being compelled by the physical necessity of selling himself as a commodity.

I imagine how cool it would be if all small talk wasn't lies.

We have waited for more than three hundred and forty years for our constitutional and God-given rights.

Testimony is contingent on experience, that's why we're all free spirits

The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse.

What I treasure most in life is being able to dream. During my most difficult moments and complex situations I have been able to dream of a more beautiful future.

When I had been a film critic for ten minutes, I treated Doris Day as a target for cheap shots. I have learned enough to say today that the woman was remarkably gifted.

My aesthetic sense was formed at a young age by what surrounded me: the narrow residential spaces of Japan and the mental escapes from those spaces that took the forms of manga and anime.

Poetry had breathed over and sanctified the land.