“You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.”

“Anything worth achieving is worth overachieving.”

“Anything worth having is worth fighting for.”

“It’s not that you have to achieve anything, it’s that you have to get away from where you are.”

“Though the funny thing about never being asked for anything is that after a while you start to feel like maybe you don’t have anything worth giving.”

“I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.”

“Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.”

“The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.”

“A poet must have died as a man before he is worth anything as a poet”

“All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.”