Excuses will not take you far, they will take you out. The success of your many excuses doesn’t mean you will run away from the work. It means the work will run away from you!

What the fertilizer does to the germinating plant is what happiness does for a depressed soul... What anger does to a person is what an acid does to its container!

All you need is a little hope in order cope in times of failure, and be able to try again with a better intelligence for excellence!

Sometimes you try to fly and you fall. Remember your falls are not fatal, they're just a little painful. Endure the pain, clean the blood stain, you'll surely gain! Get up and fly again!

Those who die with their music still on their tongues unsung are trying to say “God had made a deal with the wrong customer like me

Never turn your back to those who have faced your problems on your behalf. Never shut your mouth on those who have opened their hearts to receive you!

When the thing that your heart strongly loves to do is the thing world hungers and thirsts to see done, then that's what you were called to do. You must never leave it undone!

When there is too much sorrow in your heart, true compassion gets its ways out of it. Don’t make a will over your sorrow, nobody needs to inherit it!

If you truly have compassion in your heart, show it by keeping your doubts to yourself and sharing your hope with those who love change!

Before you can positively and passionately pursue what your heart love to do, you must first be grateful to the one who gave you such a heart to love such a thing!

Hatred gives you nothing, takes nothing from you, but destroys everything you have! Be careful of ideas of hatred that comes into your head. Destroy them before they make nests in your mind!

There is no such thing as a historical fatality there is only a historical nemesis which punishes those who have hesitated to act when action was still possible.

A beautiful heart, a beautiful smile.

To encounter great moments, you must mostly be in motion!

People who look down on us poor country folk usually won’t admit that anything worthwhile can come out of here.

The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.

It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.

If you pass something every day and it has a little character, it begins to intrigue you.

...what I try to do is a good bad picture. I work it out very carefully, and then I do something that looks as if it went wrong.

To create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language - That's who I am. That's what I am doing. That's my life goal.

The earmark favor factory needs to be boarded up and demolished, not turned over to new management that may or may not have a better eye for earmarks with 'merit.'