Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord’s mercy motivates us to do better.

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs… I knew that my heart would break if ever I put my foot down on that soil, moist, still, with old hurts. I had to face the fear/loathing at its source or it would consume me whole.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

We all have a tendency to avoid our weaknesses. When we do that, we never progress or get any better.

When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it’s not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that’s not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

I there represent that I sent notice of my method to Mr. Leibnitz before he sent notice of his method to me, and left him to make it appear that he had found his method before the date of my letter.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

I didn’t want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals.

Man lives for science as well as bread.

I’m just an individual who doesn’t feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I’m working for me.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

A child wants things to be a certain way. When you get to be an adult, you just understand that some people are good, some are not, and you can’t be naive.

I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.

You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.

It is no use saying, ‚We are doing our best.‘ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with ‚Rocky,‘ so now everything I do is just icing on the cake.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

I can express myself.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is.

I’ve been a mogul and executive since the beginning of my career. People are just born with that skill.

No decent career was ever founded on a public.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings.

Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.