It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.
Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.
The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.
We just want to win. That's the bottom line. I think a lot of times people may become content with one championship or a little bit of success but we don't really reflect on what we've done in the past. We focus on the present.
Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.
We moved into the back made it into a little 50s sitting room and started to sell the records. We had an immediate success. For one thing these Teddy Boys were thrilled to buy the records.
Every soldier must know before he goes into battle how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.
The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.
For someone who's had the level of success I've had there's been very little critical review of my work which is pretty fascinating.
If God has made the world a perfect mechanism He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it we need not solve innumerable differential equations but can use dice with fair success.