Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all those who would climb, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd.

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.

A strong woman builds her own world. She is one who is wise enough to know that it will attract the man she will gladly share it with.

If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power.

Christian piety annihilates the egoism of the heart; worldly politeness veils and represses it.

You haven’t experienced awkwardness until you’ve seen a three-million-dollar piece of software cry.

I feel like I owe Juilliard everything... coming from Kentucky at age 17, having a school like that giving me a chance. And if you cant afford it, you can get a scholarship.

As the son of a Protestant Christian mother and a Shia Muslim father, I have nevertheless ended up without a religious bone in my body.

Lone women shouldn't stop in the middle of nowhere for giant unkempt strangers with duct tape on their faces.

Let them hate me provided they fear me

I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.

It's easy to be miserable. Being happy is tougher - and cooler.