She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: "It shines like a little diamond","What does?""This moment. It is round, it hangs in empty space like a little diamond; I am eternal.

I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.

Each timewe bow to thefeet of anythingwe find riveting,the mind rises tobe surprised withnew crowningdiamonds ofcreativity.

Although they probably know that some children were used and some children are used as miners, most adults are ignorant of the chocolate industry’s use of minors.

Remember diamonds are created under pressure so hold on, it be your time to shine soon.

At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.

It [Bach's cello suites] is like a great diamond," said [Mischa] Maisky in a thick Russian accent, "with so many different cuts that reflect light in so many different ways.

I know not what it is about you that makes me go crazy but I do know that the radiance in your eyes is more dazzling than that in all the diamonds of this world!

There are two kinds of diamonds in this world: The diamond itself and the eyes full of love!

True friends are like diamonds – bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.

This is a story of Africa. A pioneer woman's journey north was merely the beginning.

Having been engaged rather a lot of times, Zsa Zsa Gabor was asked whether a lady should give back the ring. Her answer?"Of course dahlink, but first, you take out all the diamonds.

Women are like sparkling diamonds, if you let too many hands touch it, not only will it get dirty with too many smudges and finger prints, it will also lose its shine and lustre.

… the river sliding along its banks, darker now than the sky descending a last time to scatter its diamonds into these black waters that contain the day that passed, the night to come. — Excerpt from the poem “The Mercy

No one can bother the one who has not interfered in the slightest with anyone. If such a person were to go into a town of robbers, the robbers will welcome him with respect and offer him food. No matter how many diamonds he would have with him, the robbers would not be able to touch them. Otherwise they would rob even the one who is accompanied by ten policemen.

The fact that you can't see how much you're worth makes you worth so much more." She opened her mouth once, her brow bunched, but nothing came out. She didn't know the words to ask. I continued. "A diamond doesn't know how much it's worth; it's just beautiful because it exists.

A muddied diamond is better than an unsullied pebble.

Sometimes, it is how you shine in the darkness during other people's misery that is remembered more than anything you could have said or done when you have suffered just as much.

If love has taken us for a ride and passion made us ignore sham and swindle, the time has come to separate the wheat from the chaff and polish up diamonds of trust, neatly, day by day. ("Taken for a ride")

The diamond does not need to prove its worth. It is in fact the person who must teach him/herself to recognise the worth of real diamonds. A person must study this in school. A diamond does not go to school to learn how to prove its worth. It is the person who must go to school in order to recognise the worth of a diamond. Dear diamonds everywhere, stop trying to go to school. The worthy will recognise your worth.

& may you shine on in the sky with diamonds & dreams...do it for the suit behind the platform, who only wished he were free.have strength in freedom.

We sang the song as children of the mystery that we hoped to one day comprehend and now, at last, we know the answer. We, too, are twinkling stars like diamonds in the sky. We have the ability to recognize our own brilliance. We possess the same potential to light the darkest night skies.

Sometimes I can see colour without opening my eyes. I saw that Billy's heart was no colour and every colour. Like water or diamonds or crystals, it's pure and reflects the light.

A person that doesn't know their worth will never know yours. Therefore, the longer you hang onto hope that they will finally see your worth is the moment you start to depreciate in value.

If it's any consolation, Princess, I think he's a supercilious, salacious sap.""You've been reading the dictionary!""My only hope of comprehending your conversation, my petite sesquipedalian.

We belong to a nation, whose fate is to shoot at the enemy with diamonds.

The diamonds glinted under the glare of the chandelier and they looked like a thousand spider eyes

Her heart is of a much harder material... A diamond. Beautiful, but deadly…And amid people with hearts of diamonds, it is best to remember that no one is exempt from their malevolence. Not even themselves.

Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.

Removing a diamond on a rock is painful but it's more painful when it loses its value when it's not cherished, let alone shaping.

When I look up at Heaven,I see the souls of those who diedBeaming down at me,Wanting to scream: “I'm still alive!”,Wishing to scribble across the sapphire sky -Letters to their loved ones,But a million dark oceans stand between us,Between those who passed and the living,Between those of us still stuck below,And those who have crossed over the threshold of time -Where what seems like eternity to us,Is really only a few minutes to them.So you see, there is no reason to weep over the shining ones -For even though the space that separates us is limitless,The wall of time that divides us is only paper-thin.And one day, we shall all reunite with them,When our souls are released like fishBack into the vast shimmering seaTo shine together likeGlittering diamonds.

I remember thinking as a child that diamonds were stars that fell from the sky as shooting stars. You can only imagine my disappointment at learning the truth of them. I still prefer the stars.

I gazed up at the stars as I waited. They twinkled down at me, like a huge handful of diamonds someone had coated in glue and thrown on the ceiling.

The sky was a sparkling succession of black diamonds on black velvet made crystal clear by the blackout.

Love can crystallize things. When love is in the air, distressing rain can become a wonderful avalanche of shimmering diamonds. Raindrops are transformed into a flood of sparkling crystal pearls. The power of love can convert rain into a multitude of glittering prisms. The mental seduction of love and a boundless illusion, inflamed by a profound uprising emotion, can change any ordinary incident into a radiant, luminous voyage. ( "Crystallization under an umbrella" )

Life keeps throwing me stones. And I keep finding the diamonds...

I have heard many a young unmarried lady exclaim with a bold sweep of conception, “Ah me! I wish I were a widow!” Mrs. Keith was precisely the widow that young unmarried ladies wish to be. With her diamonds in her dressing-case and her carriage in her stable, and without a feather’s weight of encumbrance, she offered a finished example of satisfied ambition.

Coal mines, like a hard life, have seen the best diamonds of innovation, more than any jewel factory.

Perhaps I should just bury myself and become a diamond after thousands of years of intense pressure

As in diamonds so in batting, perfection requires flawlessness and nowhere is a batting imperfection more quickly recognised than in the dropped catch. For this reason any innings worthy of consideration deserves to have all its flaws studied to establish whether or not it is the genuine gem or just masquerading as one under the glitter of big hitting or weight of runs.

She was feeling supernatural tonight. She wanted to EAT diamonds.

The eastern sky was red as coals in a forge, lighting up the flats along the river. Dew had wet the million needles of the chaparral, and when the rim of the sun edged over the horizon the chaparral seemed to be spotted with diamonds. A bush in the little backyard was filled with the little rainbows as the sun touched the dew.

Perhaps she had received diamonds, Strike thought; she had always said she didn't care for such things, but when they argued the glitter of all he could not give her had sometimes been flung back hard in his face...

For a life where diamonds really are forever

I don't like flowers, chocolate, cakes or diamonds either, I am definitely not a hard one to impress.

Are these real diamonds?" I once asked, and she said, "Why have them if they're not?

I am not the smartest or most talented person in the world but I succeeded because I keep going and going and going.

I know the price of success: dedication hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Success generally depends upon knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

If you wish success in life make perseverance your bosom friend.

They who are the most persistent and work in the true spirit will invariably be the most successful.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight But they while their companions slept Were toiling upward in the night.

I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply didn't give up you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you.

Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful [business] giants and if you know anything about their careers you will be struck by the fact that almost every one of them encountered inordinate difficulties sufficient to crush all but the gamest of spirits. Edison went hungry many times before he became famous.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate you are sure to wake up somebody.

Four steps to achievement: plan purposefully prepare prayerfully proceed positively pursue persistently.

Flaming enthusiasm backed up by horse sense and persistence is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.

Persistence is the master virtue. Without it there is no other.

I'm hardnosed about luck. I think it sucks. Yeah if you spend seven years looking for a job as a copywriter and then one day somebody gives you a job you can say "Gee I was lucky I happened to go up there today." But dammit I was going to go up there sooner or later in the next seventy years. ... If you're persistent in trying and doing and working you almost make your own fortune.

It's the plugging away that will win you the day So don't be a piker old pard! Just draw on your grit it's so easy to quit- It's the keeping your chin up that's hard.

No one succeeds without effort. ... Those who succeed owe their success to their perseverance.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task but you will succeed if you persevere and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

The way to succeed is never quit. That's it. But really be humble about it.... You start out lowly and humble and you carefully try to learn an accretion of little things that help you get there.

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

Continuous efforts-not strength or intelligence-is the key to unlocking our potential.

Plodding wins the race.

The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow.

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.

A winner never quits and a quitter never wins.

Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled have persevered when others gave up in despair have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial industry and singleness of purpose. As a result they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm in the real world all rests on perseverance.

It is easier to begin well than to finish well.

The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.

I hope I shall have ambition until the day I die.

Out of the strain of the Doing Into the peace of the Done.

Great is the art of beginning but greater is the art of ending.

We rate ability in men by what they finish not by what they begin.

Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere or to do anything never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.

I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is why did other people stop?

I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition.

He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth.

Courage to start and willingness to keep everlasting at it are the requisites for success.

I went for years not finishing anything. Because of course when you finish something you can be judged.... I had poems which were rewritten so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.

Let no one 'til his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work Until the day's out and the labor done: Then bring your gauges.

All is well that ends well.

Either do not attempt at all or go through with it.

In soloing-as in other activities-it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.

It is a matter first of beginning-and then following through.

Genius begins great works labor alone finishes it.

There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell.

The only way to find out if you can write is to set aside a certain period every day and try. Save enough money to give yourself six months to be a full-time writer. Work every day and the pages will pile up.

I work every day-or at least I force myself into my office or room. I may get nothing done but you don't earn bonuses without putting in time. Nothing may come for three months but you don't earn the fourth without it.

When nothing seems to help I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two and I know it was not that blow that did it but all that had gone before.

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.

Live with no time out.

The great thing in this world is not so much where we are but in what direction we are moving.

The race is not always to the swift but to those who keep on running.

By perseverance the snail reached the Ark.

Our desire must be like a slow and stately ship sailing across endless oceans never in search of safe anchorage. Then suddenly unexpectedly it will find mooring for a moment.

The race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong.

It's the steady constant driving to the goal for which you're striving not the speed with which you travel that will make your victory sure.

I'm a slow walker but I never walk back.

No great thing is created suddenly.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.

Plodding wins the race.

The way of progress is neither swift nor easy.

Make haste slowly.

I'm not there yet but I'm closer than I was yesterday.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.

The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.

You give ioo percent in the first half of the game and if that isn't enough in the second half you give what's left.

Don't get hung up on a snag in the stream my dear. Snags are not so dangerous-it's the debris that clings to them that makes the trouble. Pull yourself loose and go on.

One can go a long way after one is tired.

The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest and not yet got the second which comes with a sort of mastery.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

If something is boring after two minutes try it for four. If still boring try for eight sixteen thirty-two and so on. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring but very interesting.

No one ever did anything worth doing unless he was prepared to go on with it long after it became something of a bore.

I've been failing for like ten or eleven years. When it turns it'll turn. Right now I'm just tryin' to squeeze through a very tight financial period get the movie out and put my things in order.

I'm a little wounded but I am not slain I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I'll rise and fight again.

The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man but he is brave five minutes longer.

Hope says to us constantly "go on go on " and leads us to the grave.

Every great work every big accomplishment has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision and often just before the big achievement comes apparent failure and discouragement.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we ... are often on the line and do not know it. 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. A little more persistence a little more effort and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

When you get to the end of your rope tie a knot and hang on.

It is with enterprises as with striking fire we do not meet with success except with reiterated efforts and often at the instant when we despaired of success.

Saints are sinners who kept on going.

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you 'til it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer never give up then for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Men do not fail they stop trying.

It ain't over 'til it's over.

Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal while others on the contrary obtain a victory by exerting at the last moment more vigorous efforts than before.

Many of life's failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Don't leave before the miracle happens!

If something doesn't come up the way you want you have to forge ahead.

Fortune is like the market where many times if you can stay a little the price will fall.

This man Wellington is so stupid he does not know when he is beaten and goes on fighting.

He never knew when he was whipped ... so he never was.

Entrepreneurs average 3.8 failures before a final success. What sets the successful ones apart is their amazing persistence. There are a lot of people out there with good and marketable ideas but pure entrepreneurial types almost never accept defeat.

As long as a person doesn't admit he is defeated he is not defeated-he's just a little behind and isn't through fighting.

Only yield when you must never "give up the ship " but fight on to the last "with a stiff upper lip!"

There is something in me-I just can't stand to admit defeat.

There was no such thing as defeat if you didn't accept it.

Never give in! Never give in! Never never never never.... In nothing great or small large or petty never give in except to convictions or honor and good sense!

Never admit defeat!

We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air we shall defend our island whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches we shall fight on the landing grounds we shall fight in the fields and in the streets we shall fight in the halls. We shall never surrender.

Patient endurance attends to all things.

To be somebody you must last.

He conquers who endures.

To bear is to conquer our fate.

Keep breathing.

It helps I think to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith to endure to help each other when we stumble or tire to weep and press on.

The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last in it and not be smashed by it.

The first need of being is endurance to endure with gladness if we can with fortitude in any event.

I bend but I do not break.

He that endureth to the end shall be saved.

Whatever necessity lays upon thee endure whatever she commands do.

To be somebody you must last.

We shall live to fight again and to strike another blow.

Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.

Endure and preserve yourselves for better things.

Every kind of fortune is to be overcome by bearing it.

When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through it is best to make up our minds to meet it with firmness and accommodate everything to it in the best way practical. This lessons the evil while fretting and fuming only serve to increase your own torments.

If you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.

What cannot be altered must be borne not blamed.

He that can't endure the bad will not live to see the good.

To struggle when hope is banished. To live when life's salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that's vanished- To endure and go calmly on!

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.

Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty.

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves with contentment.

We must endure what fortune sends.

People can bear anything.

We must learn from life how to suffer it.

This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

Obstacles cannot crush me every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

And let us not be weary in well doing for in due season we shall reap if we faint not.

Hold on with a bulldog grip and chew and choke as much as possible.

There remain times when one can only endure. One lives on one doesn't die and the only thing that one can do is to fill one's mind and time as far as possible with the concerns of other people. It doesn't bring immediate peace but it brings the dawn nearer.

When I look at the kids training today ... I can tell which ones are going to do well. It's not necessarily the ones who have the most natural talent or who fall the least. Sometimes it's the kids who fall the most and keep pulling themselves up and trying again.

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

For a just man falleth seven times and riseth up again.

Think of a fine painter attempting to capture an inner vision beginning with one corner of the canvas painting what he thinks should be there not quite pulling it off covering it over with white paint and trying again each time finding out what his painting isn't until he finally finds out what it is. And when you finally do find out what one corner of your vision is you're off and running.

Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist but in the ability to start over.

To be happy drop the words "if only" and substitute instead the words "next time."

Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we learn to walk.

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

You go back to the gym and you just do it again and again until you get it right.

As long as one keeps searching the answers come.

How many years you have to keep on doing until you know what to do and how to do!

Learn to self-conquest persevere thus for a time and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it.

What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.

All effort is in the last analysis sustained by faith that it is worth making.

Life has no smooth road for any of us and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps till the legend "over steep ways to the stars " fulfills itself.

The one who cares the most wins. ... That's how I knew I'd end up with everyone else waving the white flags and not me. That's how I knew I'd be the last person standing when it was all over. ... I cared the most.

If I had refused to institute a negotiation or had not persevered in it I would have been degraded in my own estimation as a man of honor.

I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write and then I remember that it was always difficult and how nearly impossible it was sometimes.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will and the other from a strong won't.

We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. ... What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself in the face of difficulties.

Desire and hope will push us on toward the future.

The champ may have lost his stuff temporarily or permanently he can't be sure. When he can no longer throw his high hard one he throws his heart instead. He throws something. He just doesn't walk off the mound and weep.

We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.

He turns not back who is bound to a star.

There was a Texas Ranger one time who said that there's no stopping a man who knows he's in the right and keeps a-coming.

When you get to the end of your rope tie a knot in it and hang on.

Whatever course you decide upon there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires ... courage.

People with good intentions never give up!

All my life I've been competing-and competing to win. I came to realize that in this way this cancer was the toughest competition I had faced yet. I made up my mind that I was going to lick it all the way. I not only wasn't going to let it kill me I wasn't even going to let it put me on the shelf.

I have accepted fear as a part of life-specifically the fear of change. ... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. ...

Tribulation produces perseverance and perseverance character and character hope.

The unifying of opposites is the eternal process.

"Brave admiral say but one good word: What shall we do when hope is gone?" The words leapt like a leaping sword: "Sail on! sail on! and on!"

In Hollywood all marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes problems.

We must dare and dare again and go on daring.

Austere perseverance harsh and continuous may be employed by the least of us and rarely fails of its purpose for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.

Grant me the courage not to give up even though I think it is hopeless.

Hard times ain't quit and we ain't quit.

All the sugar was in the bottom of the cup.

God helps those who persevere.

Gnaw your own bone gnaw at it bury it unearth it gnaw it still.

Like ships men flounder time and time again.

To strive to seek to find and not to yield.

To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.

If you stop struggling then you stop life.

One thing we learned. To make a start and keep plugging. When I had fights at school the little while I went I just bowed my neck and kept swinging until something hit the dirt. Sometimes it was me but I always got up.

Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element of prayer. Men must be in earnest when they kneel at God's footstool. Too often we get faint-hearted and quit praying at the point when we ought to begin. We let go at the very point where we should hold on strongest. Our prayers are weak because they are not impassioned by an unfailing and resistless will.

Be strong! It matters not how deep entrenched the wrong How hard the battle goes the day how long Faint not-fight on! Tomorrow comes the song.

Never grow a wishbone daughter where your backbone ought to be.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

If at first you don't succeed try try try again.

If at first you don't succeed you're running about average.

The only way to the top is by persistent intelligent hard work.

There's such a thin line between winning and losing.

When you put your hand to the plow you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.

There are two parts to the creative endeavor: making something then disseminating it.

A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Men perish because they cannot join the beginning with the end.

Business is full of brilliant men who started out with a spurt and lacked the stamina to finish. Their places were taken by patient and unshowy plodders who never knew when to quit.

My parents told me that people will never know how long it takes you to do something. They will only know how well it is done.

If we are facing in the right direction all we have to do is keep on walking.

Slow and steady wins the race.

Character is built into the spiritual fabric of personality hour by hour day by day year by year in much the same deliberate way that physical health is built into the body.

Be content to grow a little each day. If the improvement is the sort of thing which is very slow do not measure it too often. Do a self-comparison every two weeks or every six months whatever is appropriate.

One thing at a time all things in succession. That which grows slowly endures.

Slow motion gets you there faster.

In our day when a pitcher got into trouble in a game instead of taking him out our manager would leave him in and tell him to pitch his way out of trouble.

Where I am today has everything to do with the years I spent hanging on to a career by my fingernails.

Don't bother about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Trust to hard work perseverance and determination. And the best motto for a long march is "Don't grumble. Plug on!"

Never stop. One always stops as soon as something is about to happen.

Fight one more round. When your feet are so tired you have to shuffle back to the center of the ring fight one more round.

Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.

First there are those who are winners and know they are winners. Then there are the losers who know they are losers. Then there are those who are not winners but don't know it. They're the ones for me. They never quit trying. They're the soul of our game.

It's not worthy of human beings to give up.

Emotional maturity is the ability to stick to a job and to struggle through until it is finished to endure unpleasantness discomfort and frustration.

In the clutch of circumstance I have not winced or cried aloud Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody but unbowed.

Giving up is the ultimate tragedy.

God Almighty hates a quitter.

If you want to see the sun shine you have to weather the storm.

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time.

If I don't get off the mat I'll lose the fight.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Regression in grief must be seen and supported as a means toward adaptation and health.

There is no wisdom equal to that which comes after the event.

Tolerate the ... process of coming to knowledge or certainty or clarity through sometimes apparently hopeless thickets of confusion or bewilderment. Learn not to be surprised or disheartened by the muddle you inhabit and not to press too soon for a superficial reprieve.

Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion. ... I've worked with my best friends in direct competition.

When you're a professional you come back no matter what happened the day before.

What helps me go forward is that I stay receptive I feel that anything can happen.

If I see a door comin' my way I'm knockin' it down. And if I can't knock down the door I'm sliding through the window.

I try. I am trying. I was trying. I will try. I shall in the meantime try. I sometimes have tried. I shall still by that time be trying.

I have often been adrift but I have always stayed afloat.