Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.