Success is having consistent work habits.

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.

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?

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

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

This was how the world ended. Not with a bang, but with a whimper.

But we also believe in taking risks, because that's how you move things along.

A conductor can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.

Patrick Ewing used to be much better in every aspect of the game.

If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.

Motivation is just this potion to create stuff, a compulsion to express the truth of my own experiences in this life.

Avowed work, even when uncongenial, is far less trying to patience than feigned pleasure.

Faith creates the foundation for conviction.

Islam has been badly used by a certain ideology.

I mean, nobody's ever thrown a big rock at me or my friends, but we're all pretty tough guys and could probably handle it.