Hope is not a strategy. Luck is not a factor. Fear is not an option.

Wealth is more often the result of a lifestyle of hard work, perseverance, planning, and, most of all, self-discipline.

Arobynn told me that second place was just a nice title for the first loser

The Character Ethic taught that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles...

If you do everything, you'll win

Success comes in cans, not cannots.

I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.

And for all those years, we never talked about the disaster at the recital or my terrible accusations afterward at the piano bench. All that remained unchecked, like a betrayal that was now...

Society functions in a way much more interesting than the multiple-choice pattern we have been rewarded for succeeding at in school. Success in life comes not from the ability to choose between the...

Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness...

In ten years, you'll be on a stamp /where anyone at all can lick you.

Sometimes idiots can accomplish wonderful things.

People submit tooeasily to change from others. And yet, for some reason, wheneverthey consider changing themselves, the focus is always on what theyare giving up, never what they are about to gain

Everything you desire is always justoutside your comfort zone, dear boy. If it wasn't you would alreadypossess it, would you not?

Success would bea fairly boring and uninspiring dish if anybody could create it witha single ingredient, however difficult that ingredient was to find. No,success has several layers to its pallet....

But everyone wanted to be a Big Swinging Dick, even the women. Big Swinging Dickettes.