"One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns he must die and accepts his sentence undismayed."

"The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive."

"There is no such thing as luck. There is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe."

"Money is a powerful aphrodisiac. But flowers work almost as well."

"People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt."

"If a country can't save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say: Let the damned thing go down the drain!"

"To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action."

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

"Do not turn back when you are just at the goal."

"The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work."

"Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus."

"It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it."