The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Stephen King

It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.

- Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC , Frederick Buechner

If I had not actually got into this work and been called of God, I would back out. But I cannot back out: I have no doubt of the truth.

- Joseph Smith, Jr.

I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.

- Marie Curie

The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace

- Michael Jordan

I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.

- Mia Hamm

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

- William Faulkner

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

- Vince Lombardi

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.

- Angelina Jolie

If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

- B. C. Forbes

I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.

- Thomas More

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

- John Calvin

Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

- Anatole France

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

- James Allen

One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.

- John Muir

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad.

- King Lear , William Shakespeare

In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.

- Robert E. Lee

The whole house came up and I came up with it... I was just praying to the Lord to take care of me.

- Willie Nelson

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

- Abdul Kalam

These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.

- Wendell Berry

Everything is practice.

- Pele

I believe that we are here for each other, not against each other. Everything comes from an understanding that you are a gift in my life - whoever you are, whatever our differences.

- John Denver

I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free.

- Marcus Garvey

When I work, I work very hard. So I look to work with people who have that level of dedication. And I depend on that from everyone. From the director to my crew

- Tom Cruise

You have to pay attention to the moment and make it the best it can be for you. I've been trying to do that. It's really made a major difference for me.

- Tracy Chapman

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.

- Angela Davis

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

- Erica Jong

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.

- George Herbert

Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.

- William Penn

A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.

- Joan Didion

All I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time and be prepared.

- Ben Affleck

Honor your commitments with integrity.

- Les Brown

It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.

- Les Brown

It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.

- Zig Ziglar

Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.

- R. D. Laing

The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.

- C. Northcote Parkinson

Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.

- Henry Rollins

God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it.

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Everything I do is for the pleasure of Allah.

- Cat Stevens