... the silenceHolds with its gloved handThe wild hawk of the mind.

When the need to succeed is as bad as the need to breathe, then you’ll be successful.

I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

There is no substitute for Hard Work.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

The enemies of a people are those who keep them in ignorance.

Is there any soul without any struggle?

Love yourself to be the source of love.

I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear - it was not a fear of not being accepted - was a very violent fear of failure.

The best revenge is a life well lived.

When I was ten, my family moved to Downer's Grove, Illinois. When I was twelve, I found them.

I wish I could do something else, I wish I was an amazing painter or a brain surgeon or something, but it's just what it's been.

Wherever we go, wherever we remain, the results of our actions follow us.

Devotion is not a concept, not a certain kind of ideology, not a certain kind of act, it is the agent of dissolution.

I do like musical films more than big Hollywood films, especially those by Jacques Demi and Vincent Minelli.