Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.
There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.