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

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

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.

I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die without publicizing it, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another....

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

Dad, you've done a lot of great things, but you're a very old man, and old people are useless.

As you start to walk out on the way, the way appears.

I`d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

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

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

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

Without work, all life goes rotten, but when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

Percentages are why I am rich.