Things don't just happen; things happen just.

If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.

Either you run the day or the day runs you..

Don't wish it were easier. Wish you were better.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Focus on the solution, not on the problem.

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

Poor people have big TV's. Rich people have big libraries.

Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high.

God alone can finish.

Those who 'cursed the day they were born' must have been infant prodigies.

A seven year old to a neighbor after the boy's house burned down, "Oh, that was not our home. That was our house. We still have our home. We just don't have a place to put it right now."

Successes teach you nothing. Failures teach you everything. Making mistakes is the most important thing you can do.

I was out once and had wine and I got sick to my stomach, and I vowed I would never drink again.

Success depends on intuition, on seeing what afterwards proves true but cannot be established at the moment.

I am not read well, but when I do read, I read well.

When people say to me, 'You make us proud,' it's heartwarming to hear that.

Detroits industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.

In this knowledge-worker age, it's now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs - so the pressure to do well is really high.