The old men ask for more time; the young waste it. And the philosopher simply smiles, knowing there is none there.

When the need to succeed is as bad as the need to breathe, then you’ll be successful.

I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

There is no substitute for Hard Work.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

The enemies of a people are those who keep them in ignorance.

Your race is your diminishing life

Stillness was most natural. To go on scrabbling and running and grasping after some kind of life was aberration

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.

It was the fear of good things happening, because they, sooner or later, would lead to something bad.

There must always be a first," said Jem. "It is not easy to be first, and it is not always rewarding, but it is important.

My father, never chooses me for anything. Unless he needs a human shield. Thirty years and all I am to him is a hunk of meat to block buck shot. Told you dad needed me. Who's the best man now?

When someone deeply listens to you, your barefeet are on the earth, and a beloved land that seemed distant, is now at home within you.

As Benjamin Franklin said, 'Those things that hurt, instruct.' It is for this reason that wise people learn not to dread but actually to welcome problems and actually to welcome the pain of problems.

I'm from Hope, Arkansas, you may have heard of it. All I'm asking is, give us one more chance.

An experiment not worth doing is not worth doing well.