“Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it.”

“I'm still a little bent, a little crooked, but all things considered, I can't complain.”

“Republicans want smaller government for the same reason crooks want fewer cops: it's easier to get away with murder.”

“Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.”

“I have never known anyone else," Egwene said to him, "who will work so hard to avoid hard work, Matrim Cauthon.”

“Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.”

“Pencey was full of crooks. Quite a few guys came from these wealthy families, but it was full of crooks anyway. The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has - I'm not kidding.”

“Admittedly, people of a theological bent are often chronically incapable of distinguishing what is true from what they'd like to be true.”

“It is hard to accept being different, hard to have people avoid looking at you, and still believe in yourself.”

“Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.”