If a trip is worth taking, members of Congress should be prepared to justify paying for it out of their office accounts.

An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.

If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies.

My dogs are a priority and a big responsibility... but the payoffs are well worth it.

Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it's a risk worth running.

One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.

It's just hard. I wish the studios felt there was more value in these themes and these pieces of material - that they're worth protecting more. Because then it just wouldn't happen. If the studios cared, the stuff would be stopped in a second.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.

Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

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