Life operates by deserve. So, in leading people, learn to work with the people who deserve it, not the people who need it.

If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.

Either you run the day or the day runs you..

Don't wish it were easier. Wish you were better.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Focus on the solution, not on the problem.

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

Poor people have big TV's. Rich people have big libraries.

Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high.

I will call bullshit on that so many times that the word bullshit will lose all meaning. -Milo

I’m a natural-born ninja saddled with the awkward grace of a drunk camel.

My reaction to your news is delighted astonishment that Lanark has been judged more popular than a book by Ian Rankin, and only regret that this wonderful honour had no money attached to it!

Miles got a mystique about him-plus he's at the top of his profession. And he's got way, way, way more money.

If God cared only about religious activities, then the Pharisees would have been heroes of the faith.

I think talking's important. I think aspirations are critical.

...let the emotional weight of a scene rest on the dialogue wherever possible. This is the easy way to avoid overinterpretation, which seems to be what turns a scene from sympathetic to sentimental.

You cannot succeed if at some point you haven't failed.

Class is not a fixed designation in this country. We are an upwardly mobile society with a lot of movement between income groups.

We have intelligent species on our planet that we are not even trying to communicate with.