If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.

Running a close second [as a writing lesson] was the realization that stopping a piece of work just because it's hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea. Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when it feels like all you're managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position.

Stephen King

He who hates vice hates men.

John Morley

Truth is, I cut my hair for freedom, not for beauty.

Chrisette Michele

Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot.

Edgar Quinet

Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.

Carl Sagan, Blues for a Red Plan

The lessons of history? There are four: The bee fertilizes the flower it robs; whom the gods would destroy they first make mad with power; the mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small; when it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

Charles Austin Beard

So much of a professional athlete's success depends upon not necessarily the play itself but how he deals with... always saying how you deal with good, is just as important as how you deal with bad.

Brett Favre

We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Fred Malek

Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.

Henry A. Kissinger

The superior man understands what is right the inferior man understands what will sell.

Confucius

Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all

Benjamin Franklin

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Theodore Roosevelt