You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

You say, 'The country is messed up.' That's like cursing the soil and the seed and the sunshine and the rain, which is all you've got. Don't curse all you've got. When you get your own planet, you can rearrange this whole deal. This one you've got to take like it comes.

It isn’t what the book costs. It’s what it will cost you if you don’t read it.

We cannot move casually into a better future. We cannot casually pursue the goal we have set for ourselves. A goal that is casually pursued is not a goal; at best it is a wish, and wishes are little more than self-delusion.

Character is the result of hundreds and hundreds of choices you make that gradually turn who you are, at any given moment, into who you want to be.

The future does not get better by hope, it gets better by plan. And to plan for the future we need goals.

In order to find, you must first search.