You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.

If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time.

You can observe a lot just by watching.

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success.

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

If youre in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.

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

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

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

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.

Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.

The only 'break' anyone can afford to rely upon is a self-made 'break'.

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure