A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

A BMW can’t take you as far as a diploma.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat.

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenseless people.

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

What one has to do usually can be done.

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don’t want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword – two jackets, one that’s driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

There is spontaneity to my work.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

I’m a writer. I don’t support any war. That’s my principle.

People are so caught in a routine, doing the same things over and over.

I can’t keep somebody from being a star, and I can’t make somebody a star, and nobody can.

Being ‚contented‘ ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.

With all the… success that I’ve been lucky enough to get? That doesn’t happen unless the home life is solid.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can’t wait for a feeling to motivate you.

When I do something, I do it full steam ahead.

I can’t make a song for a particular person or demographic. If I love it, I’m gonna do it. I have to perform it for the rest of my life. A song is like a tattoo – you can never get away from it.

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.

America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

I don’t think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that’s what counts.

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

People tried to change my concept of what music is. That music is work, but it’s not like that.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one’s own religion.

ESPN is a great organization to work for.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I’ll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I’m crepuscular.

I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro.

The gods‘ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.

I have two Golden Boot awards at home. It would be nice to win another, but I wouldn’t mind it if I didn’t.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

Temptation is a woman’s weapon and man’s excuse.