Without continuous effort there cannot be continuous achievement.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.

It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'

What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort.

It's impossible to exceed, outnumber, outperform or isolate an infinite, all-knowing, omniscient God.

Growth is the only evidence of life.

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't like doing celebrity stuff.

Our success is directly related to our clarity and honesty about who we are, who we're not, where we want to go, and how we're going to get there.

Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.

If governments were kind, they'd realize that conficts are resolved and wars prevented not by armies but by ordinary people.

The beauty of inspiration for me is that you can't predict when it's coming. I like that it just pops up out of nowhere. You just have to be open to its arrival.