You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.
We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.