Opportunities don't knock at all. They don't have to, they're already all around us. It's up to us to see where they are and take advantage of them.

There are no strangers in Freemasonry, only friends you've yet to meet.

Every child deserves a home and love. Period.

Hard work is good for the soul, and it keeps you from feeling sorry for yourself because you don’t have time.

What’s the secret to success? It’s no secret. You need a winning attitude, honesty and integrity, and a burning desire to succeed.

The more you give to others, the more you get in return.

You earn your reputation by the things you do every day.

Don't be afraid to be unique or speak your mind, because that's what makes you different from everyone else.

It all comes back to the basics. Serve customers the best-tasting food at a good value in a clean, comfortable restaurant, and theyll keep coming back.

Whether you sell hamburgers or computers, we’re all in the customer service business. Our goal must be to exceed our customers’ expectations every day.

You can do what you want to do. You can be what you want to be.

Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.

No country could claim to be civilized if its legal system weren't available to everyone in it.

My message behind this album was finding the beauty in imperfection.

I like a lot of metal music. So that's really what I listen to a lot. Or I listen to a lot of kind of off the cuff, like I love artists like Santigold, or Gold Frapp. Yeah. Pelican. Yeah.

I thought I was funny as a kid. I used to play tricks on my brothers - I'd tie a two-shilling piece to a bit of cotton, then pull it away as they went to grab it.

You're just part of the soup of the universe, so just try to enjoy what's good about it.

The paired butterflies are already yellow with August Over the grass in the West garden; They hurt me. I grow older.

I tell my students to think of poems as language plus, language with value added beyond its everyday use.

The aesthetic principle is the same in every art, only the material differs.

My parents have been dead for many years, and when your folks are gone there is nobody standing between you and eternity.