I believe the greater the handicap, the greater the triumph.

To succeed, one must be creative and persistent.

Its better to get smart than to get mad. I try not to get so insulted that I will not take advantage of an opportunity to persuade people to change their minds.

If you can somehow think and dream of success in small steps, every time you make a step, every time you accomplish a small goal, it gives you confidence to go on from there.

You spend so much time in your profession it ought to be something you love.

When I see a barrier, I cry and I curse, and then I get a ladder and climb over it.

Dream small dreams. If you make them too big, you get overwhelmed and you don't do anything. If you make small goals and accomplish them, it gives you the confidence to go on to higher goals.

Long shots do come in and hard work, dedication and perseverance will overcome almost any prejudice and open almost any door.

There is a wisdom in the body that is older and more reliable than clocks and calendars.

Failure is a word I don't accept.

My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education.

Only your Willpower can fight the bad influences around you.

You´re my son, Ed. You might be idiotic and irresponsible, but it doesn´t make the slightest difference to what I feel for you. I´m pissed off that you could have thought it would

I'm certainly not going to put my life on hold for him.

To cheat a man isnothing; but the womanmust have fine parts indeed who cheats a woman!

This life is for us to discover the divine within. And that's really the key to life in many ways for me. And the thing is, it's not for us to reason why everything is what it is... just do it.

My mom's Jewish and my dad's Irish Catholic alcoholic, so I whine on the inside.

One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives.

I'm a hopeful romantic who adores novels with happy endings, because there are enough sad endings in real life.

Thrift of time will repay you in after-life with a thousandfold of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams.

The force of his own merit makes his way-a gift that heaven gives for him.