He had held onto his self-respect, he dreamed grand dreams, and he could work well at any task he turned his hand to.
It's not that I'm blessed... I'm prepared.
Success is a tricky thing... I read somewhere that if you had nine hours to chop down a tree; you must take eight hours to sharpen your tool.
No one plows the field just by thinking about it.
If you want to be the best, you have to work harder than everyone else.
To be successful, one has to be one of three bees – the queen bee, the hardest working bee, or the bee that does not fit in.
Do. The. Work. Every day, you have to do something you don’t want to do. Every day.
Belief, hard work, love – you have those things, you can do anything.
I was his and he was mine, and we were the beginning and middle and end. We were a song that had been sung from the very first ember of light in the world.
I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you.
Break my heart. Break it a thousand times if you like. It was only every yours to break.
True love is usually the most inconvenient kind.