“The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.”
Basketball coach Bobby Knight, quoted in the Helena, Mont., Independent Record
“Why is it that when we talk to God we are said to be praying, and when God talks to us we are said to be schizophrenic?”
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Lily Tomlin, quoted in the Hanford, Calif., Sentinel
“The fates guide him who will; him who won’t, they drag.”
Seneca, quoted in The Village Voice
“Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.”
Author Ben Hecht, quoted in the Associated Press
“I like work: It fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
Humorist Jerome K. Jerome, quoted in The Wall Street Journal
“Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths without giving offense.”
Winston Churchill, quoted in The Weekly Standard
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that really matter.”
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., quoted in the National Post (Canada)
