When life throws trials and tribulations towards you, shield your destiny with courage, faith and perseverance.

But the dull and stupid masses will continue in their sluggish bustle.

Give the historians something to write about.

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

You want to run out in front, prepare to be tripped from behind.

Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted space is any space that has art in it.

The most powerful teaching moments are the ones where you screw up.

I am a very bottom-up thinker.

[Ayres] was our city because we were building it. That's how I felt when I walked around town.

Every time I step up to the plate, I expect to get a hit. If I don't expect to get a hit, I have no right to step into the batter's box in the first place.

There is no such thing as a really rich victim.