Whatever you do,strive to do it so well that no man living and no man dead and no man yet to be born could do it any better.

It is not your environment, it is you- the quality of your mind, the integrity of your soul and the determination of your will that will decide your future and shape your life.

Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done.

It isn't more light we need, it isn't more truth, and it isn't more scientific data. It is more Christ, more courage, more spiritual insight to act on the light we have.

Whatever you do, do it so well that people looking on will feel that the task was reserved especially for you by God Himself.

He who starts behind in the great race of life must forever remain behind or run faster than the man in front.

It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.

A child must learn early to believe that she is somebody worthwhile, and that she can do many praiseworthy things.

It isn't a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.

[H]owever hard the road, however difficult today, tomorrow things will be better. Tomorrow may not be better, but we must believe that it will be.

You have the ability, now apply yourself.

I said nothing. Deep inside of me, my voice screamed from a hole where I had buried it

Never try to keep it professional, keep it smutty, write with bodily fluids on sandpaper, and damn the men with clipboards in white suits, the literary bean-counters, the prose police.

I really believe that coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

We will still be enormously profitable and by far the most profitable enterprise software company.

Forgiveness is 'selective remembering'--a conscious decision to focus on love and let the rest go.

Your job is to get your audience to care about your obsessions.

I love women. They're the best thing ever created. If they want to be like men and come down to our level, that's fine.

We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.

Good comedians are great philosophers.

Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.