The first law of success ... is concentration: to bend all the energies to one point and to go directly to that point looking neither to the right nor the left.

The difficulties, hardships and trials of life, the obstacles... are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly, and teach self-reliance.

The same disappointments in life will chasten and refine one man's spirit, embitter another's.

Be methodical if you would succeed in business, or in anything. Have a work for every moment, and mind the moment's work.

The smallest thing, well done, becomes artistic.

One well-cultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth one hundred shallow faculties.

Unless a man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous.

As frost, raised to its utmost intensity, produces the sensation of fire, so any good quality, overwrought and pushed to excess, turns into its own contrary.

The petty cares, the minute anxieties, the infinite littles which go to make up the sum of human experience, like the invisible granules of powder, give the last and highest polish to a character.

Criminals are opportunists. If you've got a booming market, they're going to get away with more fraud.

The power of music that poetry lacks is the ability to persuade without argument.

Love the Lord God, with all your heart, soul, mind and strength.

The whole world may begin to burn, but the National Socialist State and Idea will emerge from the conflagration like platinum.

He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.

There will always be people who can do it better than you, but that's a good thing! Start to see competition as inspiration — without envy.

My mother was killed in a plane crash, so I hate travelling in planes. Death is so unexpected. I would actually rather stay at home and not go anywhere.

I believe in the battle-whether it's the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle.

I love rich people. Any time I needed a job, I went to a rich person. I like poor people, but they never had a job for me.

If my life were a song it would probably be titled 'Roller Coaster', up and down all the time.

Being a fan of dance and a dancer, I love my classic dance movies.

It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, [for] all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.