Don’t tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done.

Everything good is costly and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things. It will cost you your innocence, your illusions, your certainty.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.

Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied.

You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man’s actions are, such must be his spirit.

You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.

When you’re committed to something, you accept no excuses; only results.

Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.

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.

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness for the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in.

The things are mighty few on earth That wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth We've go to work to gain.