The one requirement for success in our business lives is effort. Either you make the commitment to get results or you don't.

What you wind up regretting aren't the things you do, it's what you don't do that you will never forgive yourself for.

If you tried to right all the wrongs in the world you'd exhaust yourself in under an hour.

Haylin was given a good talking-to by the headmaster and made to write a paper about workers' rights, which he considered a privilege rather than a punishment. He was obligated to write ten pages, and handed in a tome of nearly fifty pages instead, duly footnoted, quoting from Thomas Paine and FDR. He couldn't wait for the next decade. Everything would change in the sixties, he told Franny. And, if they were lucky, they would then be free.

This is the true wine of astonishment: We are not over when we think we are.

the world has changed: it did not change without your prayers without your faith without your determination to believe in liberation and kindness; without your dancing through the years that had no beat.

She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand, that no is a word the world never learned to say to her.

She say, Nothing but death can keep me from it. She never write.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society, for nothing suffocates the promise of America more than unbounded cynicism and indifference.

A dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. —Vince Lombardi, pro football coach

People of excellence go the extra mile to do what's right.

If you know you have to wait anyway, why not make a decision to enjoy your life while you're waiting? Why not be happy while God is in the process of changing things? After all, there's nothing we can really do to make it happen any faster. We might as well relax and enjoy our lives, knowing that at the appointed time God is going to bring his plan to pass.