I once listed all the good things I did over the past year, and then turned them into resolution form and backdated them. That was a good feeling

Remember, most of us got something for nothing the first time just by showing up here at birth. Now we have to qualify.

I do not want to know what you will hope for. I want to know what you will work for. I do not want your sympathy for the needs of humanity. I want your muscle. As the wagon driver said when they came to a long, hard hill: ‘Them that’s going on with us, get out and push. Them that ain’t, get out of the way’.

The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.

Manuals have their uses ... but they are not to be confused with living.

You feel like an ant contemplating Chicago.

This is an exercise in power - the power of mind over matter. If you don't mind being inadequate, it doesn't matter.