The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

Patience is the art of hoping.

The lazy are always wanting to do something.

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

Prosperity makes few friends.

Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies.

He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.

There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.

Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.

The mind reaches great heights only by spurts.

All men are born truthful and die liars.

I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.

You know, Christianity has its own superstition anyway: Why you turn three times, what this saint means, why you pray to the patron saint of lost causes, why you go this way or that way.

I work with the Humane Society a lot and have three rescue cats.

Every time you do a project, you learn something new.

I have always loved maps.

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

I type in one place, but I write all over the house.

There are people who are willing to work within the system, and people who don't want to work with the system at all.