The dash helps to indicate that the two thoughts are intimately related, and it's less stodgy than a semicolon, which would have performed the same function (and who talks in semicolons?).

Concentrate on what will produce results rather than on the results, the process rather than the prize.

Your path and purpose will become crystal clear when you begin to trust your vision.

Good talent with bad attitude equals bad talent.

Champions behave like champions before they are champions

Invest in great relationships, they will pay a lifetime of dividends.

I've observed that if individuals who prevail in a highly competitive environment have any one thing in common besides success, it is failure—and their ability to overcome it.

Failure is part of success, an integral part. Everybody gets knocked down. Knowing it will happen and what you must do when it does is the first step back.

Many people erroneously think they have only one chance to succeed, and if they miss that chance, they are doomed to failure. In fact, most people have several opportunities to succeed.

The minute you step away from the negative people in your life you will instantly see the beauty in your horizon.

Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.

After the prayer they executed an armed robbery. That sounds very strange this many years later: prayer and then armed robbery.

If you don’t have the faith in principles and you don’t believe in the absolutism of the truth then you won’t be able achieve anything in life.

It's like suddenly in the Middle Ages, people figured men should be in charge of women's bodies since they were in charge of pretty much everything else

I enjoy my fun time and everything like that but I love what I do.

When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous conflicts... I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

Grace can neither be bought, earned, or won by the creature. If it could be, it would cease to be grace.

The cells are thus the stomachs of which the plant has millions like mouths.

Only when your memories are more important to you than your goals are you old.

Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.

Life, in all ranks and situations, is an outward occupation, an actual and active work.