The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Michel de Montaigne

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Benjamin Franklin

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own.

Harry S Truman

If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y plus Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

Three removes are as bad as a fire

Benjamin Franklin

P.S. I enjoy acid pops.

J.K. Rowling

When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.

Edward Cocker

I have a fear of being boring.

Christian Bale

We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.

Maurice Strong

My father had never watched tennis, never liked tennis too much. He said, 'OK, we buy a racket, we watch together,' because we didn't know anything. It was a process of learning together that made it more interesting.

Novak Djokovic

If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up, that is exactly what you will be.

Robert Collier

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Michel de Montaigne