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.

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.

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.

We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves.

Awareness without action is worthless.

In practice it is death that works soseductively behind the image of its brother, sleep

Know what you want to do hold the thought firmly and do every day what should be done and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal.

Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.

When Larry Wright won the Pulitzer for The Looming Tower we all strutted around for weeks, until some sourpuss among us noted that it was actually Larry, and not the rest of us, who won the prize.

I've been very fortunate to work with people that I'm fans of.

I’m not playing the race card. I’m playing the rice card.

The greatest use of your words is prayer. Talk to God about EVERYTHING, all the time. Maintain a running conversation.

If heaven existed as a physical building on earth, human beings would remodel it to make it right.

Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created.