Doing common things uncommonly well.

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.

Now you have to kiss me so my feelings aren't hurt.""I meant to hurt your feelings, " Charlotte said."I guess that means I'll have to kiss you myself so I feel better.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces and which most men throw away.

I do like to look at female drummers, because I am one.

I always resented books that tried to teach a lesson, where the characters are too good: They don't swear, they tell their mothers everything.

The Klit brothers should first fight each other, and the winner should fight me.

I'm a very competitive person, whether it's school, baseball or even playing video games.

It takes a dream to get started, desire to keep going, and determination to finish.

Both my marriages were failures! Number one departed, and number two stayed

Alas, two men are often necessary to provide a woman with a perfect lover, just as in literature a writer composes a type only by employing the singularities of several similar characters.

There are really no guidelines whatsoever, because this is the kind of thing that only happens to ME.