All effort is in the last analysis sustained by faith that it is worth making.

You must choose to risk what you fear to lose to gain everything you desire

Poetry is the art of using language to transcend language.

He had hopes, but hope wasn't a solution.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Luminous quotations, also, atone, by their interest, for the dulness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior work by the variety which they lend to its style and treatment.

Prayer is the hard-work business of Christianity, and it nets amazing results.

Two men are equally free from the rage of ambition; are they therefore equal in merit? Perhaps not; one may be above ambition, the other below it.

There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.

The challenge is that we live in a time where there's a lot of crap on television.

What I'm trying to do is deliver results, not promises; results, not vision; results, not concepts. The world is cynical about IBM's promises.