"Give the American people a good cause, and there's nothing they can't lick." -- John Wayne

"Don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love, inspiration and hard work. I don't think you can go wrong."

"The greatest thing a human being ever does in this world is to see something...To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion, all in one."

"Towering genius disdains a beaten path...It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction."

"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."

"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it."

"What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself."

"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for."

"The work never is done while the power to work remains."

"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning."

"In the long run, men hit only what they aim at."

"In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you."

"There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience."

"I've always found it very important to do your homework first and then talk."

"I've always found it very important to do your homework first and then talk."

"There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home."

"I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes."

"Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order."

"The wisest mind has something yet to learn."

"Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take many small steps."