Once learned, the ability to disagree with a smile pays valuable dividends for a lifetime.

Anger is a more noble emotion than indifference.

You should quit trying only after two conditions have been met: 1.) You've given yourself a legitimate shot. 2.) Trying is no longer fun.

My lousy way of getting it done is better than your great way of not doing it.

Self-esteem is the prize awarded by you to you for playing by your own rules - in which case, you'd think it would be easier to come by.

You are an adult when, faced with important decisions, you choose to have more faith in yourself than anything else.

The resolve to diet is most easily summoned on a full stomach.

Success is less rare than the courage to attempt it.

How do we not rue the many unchosen paths in life? A blessed lack of imagination. There are enough real glories along any path to swamp our meager ability to picture alternatives.

Talent is truth on display.

Personal happiness is so important, most choose to let someone else take care of it.

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.

I don't know what they see and say about you, but what I see and believe in you is a strong potential to manifest a life of greatness.

What we need is more money back in the hands of Americans of any economic standing and so raising taxes right now doesn't make sense.

The survival or preservation of certain favoured words in the struggle for existence is natural selection.

The BBC should not have a cheerleader. It should have somebody who runs the organisation in the interests of the public and that should be a chairman.

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.

The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.

I don't think tennis is a glamour game, not at all.

I think the camera is a wonderful machine, don't you? And not to take photographs in this century is crazy.

All poetry is putting the infinite within the finite.