Perhaps you will have to spend hours on your knees or upon your face before the throne. Never mind. Wait. God will do great things for you if you will wait for Him. Yield to Him. Cooperate with Him.

Win or lose you will never regret working hard, making sacrifices, being disciplined or focusing too much. Success is measured by what we have done to prepare for competition.

He who does not work, will not eat

Here every man may be master and owner of his owne labour and land...If he have nothing but his hands, he may...by industrie quickly grow rich.

History is the memory of time, the life of the dead and the happiness of the living.

Your aim's as bad as your cooking sweetheart... and that's saying something!

The attitude, and the mind, is where it all starts.

Women are more balanced than men. Where the most brilliant minds have so far have mostly belonged to men, no women has ever been as stupid as a man can be.

The Best way to help the world is to help someone!

The best way to manipulate a man is to make him think he is manipulating you.

Everything of worth is found full of difficulties.

Just feel the joy of life.

Of course I despise money when I haven't got any. It's the only dignified thing to do.

Social unrest and protectionism are the two major risks of the world economic crisis.

Better a wrong will than a wavering; better a steadfast enemy than an uncertain friend; better a false belief than no belief at all.

I've jumped out of an airplane 34 times. I've dove 212 feet under water. I've done a lot of things that defied death.

Young people are at risk of being disinherited from their community if that community lacks the courage and confidence to teach its history.

Secrets. I can't take then with me. If I do, when I go, when I arrive at my final destination, I'll be . . . impure.

On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information.

Paris strikes the vulgar part of us infinitely the most, but to a thinking mind London is incomparably the most delightful subject for contemplation.