If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood read more

If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater the effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders -- what would you tell him to do? I don't know. What could he do? What would you tell him? To shrug.

There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.

There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you read more

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.

I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.

Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most underemployed, talent in the world.

Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most underemployed, talent in the world.

to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, read more

to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.

A free man is a jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties.

A free man is a jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties.