"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

"Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction--faith in fiction is a damnable false hope."

"Hell, there are no rules here--we're trying to accomplish something."

"If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward."

"Many of life's failures are those who didn't know how close they were to success when they gave up."

"Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless."

"Reach high, for the stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal."

"There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past."

"In Biblical times, a man could have as many wives as he could afford. Just like today."

"People who don't think probably don't have brains; rather, they have gray fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake."

"She had learned the self-deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always cover the nakedness of her need to excel."

"There was never a genius without a tincture of madness."