What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?

Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try, and keep trying, for there is nothing to lose by trying and a great deal to gain if successful. By all means TRY! Do it NOW!!!

Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.

When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.

Keep your mind on your objective, and persist until you succeed. Study, think, and plan.

What is it that makes us who we are and what we are? Is it only our blood, the color of our hair, our skin, and our eyes? Or is it believing in what we believe and living the way we live?

I was an economics major, which I enjoyed because I had a good business sense.

I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing them.

I don't know anybody's road who's been paved perfectly for them, there are no manuals, you don't know what life has in store for you.

You say a good cause justifies any war; but I say a good war justifies any cause.

A serious illness or a death advertises the doctor exactly as a hanging advertises the barrister who defended the person hanged.

Even the greatest players accept coaching and value the need for discipline and the order that it brings to the team

If you never heard opportunity knock, maybe you're never at home.

In the time it takes American literary titan William H. Gass to write a novel, other artists have been born, completed their life's work and died. That may be an exaggeration, but only a slight one.