Luck can often mean simple taking advantage of a situation at the right moment, It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared.

One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.

To succeed, we must first believe that we can.

To succeed, it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

The more you can dream, the more you can do.

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility in the final analysis. The one quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility.

Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it - ink it!

If your position is everywhere, your momentum is zero.

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.

Never reveal all of yourself to other people; hold back something in reserve so that people are never quite sure if they really know you.

An once of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.

Be the hero, the example and the perfection that you are.

A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.

Believe none of what you hear...and even less of what you see...this is what we'll be.

Under the benignant providence of Almighty God the representatives of the States and of the people are again brought together to deliberate for the public good.

When developing an idea, I remind myself not to start with compromise. I envision the ideal manifestation of the idea, as if I had no limits in resources, materials, or permission.

You can't help parts of yourself leaking into other characters.

When it comes to our foreign policy, Mitt Romney seems to want to import the foreign policies of the 1980s, just like the social policies of the 1950s and the economic policies of the 1920s.

Sooner or later, jihadist-style terror and WMD are going to come together and the consequences could be horrendous.

For the first couple of years I played really bad tennis. It was so bad that they booed me off the court

People aren't stupid. I mean, people remember in 1990, the unemployment rate was 10 percent. Now it's 4 _ percent. We've got 1/4 million jobs that we've created.