Perfection is impossibility but striving for perfection is not. Do the best you can. That is what counts.

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Passion is momentary love is enduring.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character.

Men of great ambition have sought happiness . . . and have found fame.

I want to go on living after my death!

The eternal Being is forever if he is at all.

Pain is nothing compared to what it feels like to quit. Give everything you got today for tomorrow may never come.

I was one of the boys who made passes at girls who wore glasses. Any girl who was smarter than me - that was a huge turn-on.

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

One useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three is a Congress.

I know nothing of the science of astrology and I consider it to be a science, if it is a science, of doubtful value, to be severely left alone by those who have any faith in Providence.

The New York action painters want their pictures to jump off the walls and chase you down the street.

I did not think; I experimented.