You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Passion is momentary love is enduring.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character.

Well-behaved women seldom make history.

By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.

Not to get what you have set your heart on is almost as bad as getting nothing at all.

The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the political development of the American working class.

This is a win for the 4-year-olds who require pre-K, the low-wealth counties that need assistance with school construction and the disadvantaged students trying to go college.

Public opinion, or what passes for public opinion, is not invariably a moderating force in the jungle of politics.

When you draw a western correctly, you create such drama, such dilemma that you think you almost don't want to admit who you might have been.

Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don't fit in?

At the end of the day, Mother Nature has only one question for us: 'What life did you nurture today?

If there's one thing I've learned in this life, it's that you never say no to an old gypsy woman with a blind eye and leprous fingernails.