Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Could one that's damned stand in high Heaven, even thereHe'd feel within himself all Hell and Hell's despair.

Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.

Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values.

I got hate letters from girls all over America because I wouldn't go to the prom with them.

About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

I made a decision that to me, photography had to be something that I could feel. I could feel in my stomach. I could not take pictures that were not connected to my own inner life.

You control the doorway to your mind.

So I’ve seen my boys do that a hundred times with the neighboring pixy girls. Give her their favorite seed and be too flustered to tell her what it was.