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.

Dreaming illustrates your hidden capacities and your unawakened ability.

Success is having consistent work habits.

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.

What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle.

Before you wear a crown of gold, life sometimes makes you wear a crown of thorns.

Excellence annoys your haters, success infuriates them, and genius kills them.

The greater the challenge, the greater the grace of God.

And remember: you must not overwork your body, or your soul. You must not enslave yourself, as you would not enslave any other person. You must be the custodian of your self.

What Douglas had once seen as the attractive over-confidence of youth, now looked more like unyielding selfishness.

I am almost equal to a shadow.

It's hard to think that you're a political consultant - not many people are going to get a crack at a thing like this.

You want diversity in any intellectual organization. I mean, that's how good ideas arise.

Your body is your instrument, you play it expertly.