Life is not a dress rehearsal - every day is opening night.

Dreaming illustrates your hidden capacities and your unawakened ability.

You must accept that you can change and that a pattern of principles adhered to and used repeatedly will not only direct your life, but change it permanently.

Success is having consistent work habits.

What makes the great great? It is a sense of destiny.

Having a long term goal provides a catalyst for motivation at every waking moment.

As you move through life, set aside good ideas and give them to others to encourage and inspire.

Almost any poem has to be read twice, first for strangeness, second for clarity.

If a despot like Adolf Hitler can think of 1000-year reign, why can't you think of a goal that is gonna last 100 years after you have gone?

Poetry depends on being simultaneously opaque and transparent. It can't be only one or the other. The pebble and the pool.

When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation.

Understanding the value of a security and whether it's trading above or below that value is the difference between investing and speculating.

He accomplished wonders of diplomacy on the principle, never give way, and never give offense.

Anyone can deal with victory. Only the mighty can bear defeat.

The individual cannot exist on his/her own and the collectivism should respect freedom of conscience. My struggle is about the freedom of thought.

In a novel, the author gives the leading character intelligence and distinction. Fate goes to less trouble: mediocrities play a part in great events simply from happening to be there.

There are two great gifts which God, in his love for man, has granted from on high: the priesthood and the imperial dignity.

It is a truism that education is no longer a luxury. Education in this day and age is a necessity.

Just because you're offended, doesn't mean you're right.

I believe that renunciation of the Soviet Union was an expression of the free will of the Russian people.