Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Shakespeare's idea of the tragic fact is larger than this idea and goes beyond it; but it includes it, and it is worth while to observe the identity of the two in a certain point which is often ignored.

But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's worth of work as his legacy. That's all that life allowed him.

A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So it's a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, what's good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy.

People respected my experience, they hire me, they pay me what I am worth to coach their team.

There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.

A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.

Each individual is unique. We all have equal worth. Young and old, those who can cope and those who need help.

A person's worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society.

Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

If you're not having fun it's not worth doing.

Now the big question is if you are going to go to all the trouble of setting an opera and making all that music and so on, there's got to be some aspect that you can do in an opera that really makes it worth while.