Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong for like him she has been accused of mental inferiority and denied the privileges of a liberal education.

A creative element is surely present in all great systems and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy.

Everyone applauds each other's success in Hollywood because they know how tough it is but it really comes down fundamentally to the process.

Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.

The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

That's one strength that Stevie has. She's really not a strong instrumentalist in any way. Her instrument is her voice and her words. And it keeps her focused on the very center of that.

There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility.

I stopped thinking too much about what could happen and relied on my physical and mental strength to play the right shots at the right time.

A coach once told me there are four factors that determine a players' performance: his tactical awareness his physical condition his technical ability and his mental strength.