Well, some people create their own opportunities; others go where opportunities are the greatest; others fail to recognize opportunity when they are face to face with it.

The real secret of success is enthusiasm.

The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers.

Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it.

The real secret of success is enthusiasm. Yes, more than enthusiasm, I would say excitement. I like to see men get excited. When they get excited they make a success of their lives.

To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.

I like to build things, I like to do things. I am having a lot of fun .

I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.

It devolves upon the United States to help motorize the world.

Collecting has always been in my blood.

I am sorry about the person who is not truly excited about his job. He will not only never truly be happy there, but he won't achieve anything great.

She was always fighting a battle but her smile would never tell you so.

There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.

Who ever walked behind anyone to freedom?

Stop thinking of failing.

It is better to anticipate than to react.

I feel the pressure but I embrace it. Whatever I have to do to make the sport catch on to other people, I'll do it.

The recipe for beauty is to have less illusion and more Soul, to retreat from the belief of pain or pleasure in the body into the unchanging calm and glorious freedom of spiritual harmony.

When parents die, all of the partings of the past are reevoked with the realization that this time they will not return.

Part of acting is always just being available emotionally and open to people.

[Our children] have been taken away from us by the psychiatric mental-health system. They've been taken away by the educational system, by the government, and by many different forces.