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Quotes by American Authors
"Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up."
"One man with courage makes a majority."
"Originality is the art of concealing your source."
"Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out."
"Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas."
"Avoid popularity if you would have peace."
"The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose."
"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."
"I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free."
"People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else."
"There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original."
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."
"When preparing to climb a mountain - pack a light heart."
"Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy."
"Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people."
"I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all."
"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive."
"What do I care about law? Ain't I got the power?"
"A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men; he is a person who can get his men to do the work better than he can."
"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
"I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said."
"I want you to do it right as fast as you can, not fast as right as you can."
"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."
"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."
"Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important."
"You define beauty for yourself, society doesn't define your beauty."
"We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics."
"If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it."
"Information is the resolution of uncertainty."
"She is the mother I never had, she is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don't know a better person."
"I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there."
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."
"A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her."
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