The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.

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.

Man needs what's worst in him in order to achieve what's best in him.

Tonight I'm happy. I will worry about tomorrow when tomorrow comes. But I'm getting there.

America's leadership is essential. America's resources are vast. America's opportunities are unprecedented.

I've been a documentary photographer for much longer than I have been a filmmaker.

I fooled you. I fooled you. I got pig iron. I got pig iron. I got all pig iron.

I started writing poetry when I was six. I had this teacher who didn't believe the poems I'd bring in were mine because they were dark and sad. But I wrote about what I experienced in my childhood.

In mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself.

I brought a mirror to Lovers' Lane. I told everybody I'm Narcissus.

The business of a general is to kick away the ladder behind soldiers when they have climbed up a height.

Everyone needs a theme song! It should make you feel like a million dollars.