“I believe in hard work and luck, and that the first often leads to the second.”

If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

Secretly we’re all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

I find that discussing an idea out loud is often the way to kill it stone dead.

It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.

I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.

If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

In the end, it mattered not that you could not close your mind. It was your heart that saved you.

I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.

I definitely know that love is the most powerful thing of all.

Always have a vivid imagination, for you never know when you might need it.

It was strange how your brain could know what your heart refused to accept.

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.

Death comes for us all in the end.

It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

With hard work, living a good life, you can do anything. You will be rewarded for that.

[Writing is] largely a matter of application and hard work, or writing and rewriting endlessly until you are satisfied that you have said what you want to say as clearly and simply as possible. For me that usually means many, many revisions.

Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don’t look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.

Everyone’s dream can come true if you just stick to it and work hard.

I came from the Bronx and a certain background. I worked really hard. I kept my focus on the right things.

I don’t think there is anything wrong in earning money from the sport you love. If you work hard and get benefits from it, there is no harm. The day you feel that you are not working hard and are only looking at the benefits, that’s where the problem is.

With respect to Committees as you would perceive I am very jealous of their formation. I mean working committees. I think business is always better done by few than by many.

Always work hard and have fun in what you do because I think that’s when you’re more successful. You have to choose to do it.