Spurts don't count. The final score makes no mention of a splendid start if the finish proves that you were an also ran.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Only things the dreamers make live on. They are the eternal conquerors.

Makers of empire, they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than thrones.

Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage "coaches" ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

I have heard that we are spirits having a human experience. Perhaps those of us who have no conscience are dark spirits having a human experience.

Habitual excuses for inactivity indicates little or no interest in what one ought to have done.

The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.

I should have told her at the time. I could have taken a deep breath, looked away, and forced myself to say it.

This lifetime right now you have a specific destiny. You are destined to die at a certain time, to make a certain amount of money, to have certain associations and friendships.

One must learn how to be black in America.

Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.

It is different [to perform in Israel] because it arises from very deep wells of affiliation.

Despair is as hollow and deceptive as hope!

The real terrorist threats are George W. Bush and his band of brown-shirted thugs.