What is required is not a lot words, but effectual ones.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.

The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution

Don't stumble over something behind you.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself.

It's all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

Al Gore is a good man. He is a decent, caring man. He listens to his heart and his head. He loves his family.

I really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role.

We are all concerned about the future of American education. But as I tell my students, you do not enter the future - you create the future. The future is created through hard work.

In Japan they're definitely more over the top. They had four Boogie stacks and 20 guitars. But otherwise it's pretty much the same thing, except there's a translator. It's really nice.

We are co-creators with God, not puppets on a string waiting for something to happen.

I lived in a hotel across the street from Disneyland for a month.

Even in a bad market, location, location, location is a way to still buy and sell property.

For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lillies that fester smell far worse than weeds.