The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

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.

Writer is a miner

The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing.

Art can be a medium for people to discover universal spirit, with imagery not isolated to one particular wisdom path, but pointing to the underlying truth that they all transmit.

Think! It ain't illegal 'yet.'

I would say my return to my faith is - it's a very personal thing.

I cannot but think it an evil sign of a people when their houses are built to last for one generation only.

If you want to surrender to creativity, surrender to creation.

If a Latina falls in love with someone who is insecure, it can be a nightmare.

Nothing gained without cost is valued. Freedom has a cost, and all will bear it so all will value and preserve it.

I have written my name on the far side of the sky.