There are many colorful flowers on the path of life, but the prettiest have the sharpest thorns.

I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.

If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.

For honest merit to succeed amid the tricks and intrigues which are now so lamentably common, I know is difficult; but the honor of success is increased by the obstacles which are to be surmounted. Let me triumph as a man or not at all.

It is impossible to grant someone happiness. The best you can do… is to give him the freedom to pursue happiness. Happiness is not a tangible thing, it's a byproduct - a byproduct of achievement.

L'fum tzara agra, according to the effort is the reward.