No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and is prepared to assume responsibilities.

Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and prepared to assume responsibilities.

You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.

You can succeed if nobody else believes it, but you will never succeed if you don't believe in yourself.

Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.

Your greatness is measured by your kindness.

Beware of ignorance when in motion; look out for inexperience when in action, and beware of the majority when mentally poisoned with misinformation, for collective ignorance does not become wisdom.

You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

Be strong enough to say this to yourself -Sins were mine, and so shall I have to pay for it

If there was one thing which Sloan had learned over the years it was that you should never underestimate the element of luck in detective work.

It'd felt good to be part of an "us, " with the same thoughts, the same feelings, the same miseries.

she’s mad, but she’s magic.

The energy born of love is creative - it makes everything it touches new. To see how passionate you are, look around at what you have created.

To have a successful marriage, a man must, on a fundamental level be scared shitless of his wife.

Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external.

States are violent to the extent that they have the power to act in the interests of those with domestic power

What you feel in Japanese poetry is always entirely longing.

When a Cat adopts you, and I am not superstitious at all I don't mean only Black cats there is nothing to be done about it except to put up with it and wait until the wind changes.