I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.

There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of lack of ambition.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

You reach a point where you don't work for money.

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

The world does not pay men for that which they 'know'. It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.

The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs are, generally, easily influenced by the opinion of others.

The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

Please all, and you will please none.

One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.