Something greater than wealth, grander even than fame — that manhood, character, stand for success, and that nothing else really does.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.

It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'

What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort.

Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.

Even if that were true, it wouldn't be irony, " Lucas pointed out. "Irony is the contrast between what's said and what happens.

I think I would like to discover a new root where people don't get bored with people singing boring lines but something exciting. That'd be interesting.

It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation.

If God wants us to pray without ceasing, it is because He wants to answer without ceasing!

Lilith: Oh, but your heart grows cold. A north wind blows and carries down the distant... Rose? The Doctor: Oooh, big mistake! Because that name keeps me fighting!

Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.

We never see ourselves as heroes and sometimes when we do it is a hero that has made a fortune as a clown or a boxer. And there is no lasting value in either one of those.

I'm Santa Claus to these hoes without a reindeer.

I have lived through the best years of this country's history. The next generations are going to see war and social calamities. I am glad I don't have to live on into them.