Man is a dream about a shadow. But when some splendour falls upon him from God, a glory comes to him and his life is sweet.

When the need to succeed is as bad as the need to breathe, then you’ll be successful.

I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

There is no substitute for Hard Work.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

The enemies of a people are those who keep them in ignorance.

If people can live through genocide and retain compassion, if they can take strength in pain, if they are able, still, to laugh, then certainly we can learn something from them.

You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.

I realized I liked being in the studio and working on translating the ideas into recordings.

You know, I never fight for corporate America.

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

As the art world changes, artists have more and more responsibility. You don't have a lot of luxury to be super secluded.

Christianity is Christ plus nothing!

I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them, and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.

If we seek the essence of every situation, if we seek to connect to God within our hearts, then we will find an opportunity there, to grow internally in wisdom in every trial we face.

I was on my own union council for twenty-odd years.