The successful man is the one who had the chance and took it.

Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.

It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true.

More people should learn to tell their dollars where to go instead of asking them where they went.

Don’t look for society to give you permission to be yourself.

If things go wrong, don't go with them.

People would rather be shown how valuable you are, not told.

If things are not going well with you, begin your effort at correcting the situation by carefully examining the service you are rendering, and especially the spirit in which you are rendering it.

Only religion can prevent democratic rule from developing into mob rule. A nation can prosper only as its citizens are religious, intelligent, capable of service and eager to render it.

When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up.

The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing.

Even after she was gone, he passed her place each day: something white in a high window - not a face, but the white belly of a pigeon beating its wingsagainst the pane in the boarded-up house.

Be careful how close you get to someone... It just ends up hurting more than not having no one to love to begin with.

Marketing is always a tricky thing with a rated R movie. Sometimes people just get what it is and they want to come see it, and sometimes you have to explain it more.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.

Study yourself the way a hunter studied prey. Exploit your own weaknesses to create desired changes within yourself.

These characters were like twelve-bar blues or other chord progressions. Given the basic parameters of Batman, different creators could play very different music.

You can criticize yourself to a point to do something better, or you criticize yourself to a point where you inhibit yourself.

Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.

All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties.

I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.