Luck is not chance. It's Toil. Fortune's expensive smile is earned.

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they are good—or there because they’re lucky.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn.

Who works with all the strength he can Shall never die in debt to man.

Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.

Each well-born soul must win what it deserves.

Work is love made visible.

Badness you can get easily, in quantity: the road is smooth, and it lies close by. But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it, and rough at first. But when you come to the top, then it is easy, even though it is hard.