I'm not tired. I'm just checking my eyelids for holes. It could take a while

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

Do not pay attention to those who are trying to stop or hinder you

Reasons are the fuel for goal achievement. Without a strong enough reason, it's impossible to persevere.

Impossible things are really rough to do, you know.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.

And maybe there is greatness waiting for you - if you only get back up on your feet and keep going.

Finishing is what you have to do. If you don't finish, nothing is worth a damn

Nothing is so difficult that it cannot be discovered by seeking.

For dreams that never die.

For we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and...

Higher and higher he climbed. His strength came from somewhere deep inside himself and also seemed to come from the outside as well. After focusing on Big Thumb for so long, it was as if the rock had...

The journey from the head to the hand is perilous and lined with bodies. It is the road on which nearly everyone who wants to write—and many of the people who do write—get lost.

She wanted to get at the hate of them all, to pry at it and work at it until she found a little chink, and then pull out a pebble or a stone or a brick and then a part of the wall, and, once started,...

Among the many surprising things about the life of Albert Einstein was the trouble he had getting an academic job.

You can't just hope for happy endings. You have to believe in them. Then do the work, take the risks.

What's the bravest thing you ever did?He spat in the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this morning, he said.

All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a by-product. The course was more plodding than heroic: I did not strive valiantly against doubters but took incremental steps studded with a...

The thing with giving up is you never know. You never know whether you could have done the job. And I'm sick of not knowing about my life.