I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

He who will not economize will have to agonize.

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

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.

If you're bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, you don't have enough goals.

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'

Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.

Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.

Boredom is one of the most blissful feelings.

He who thinks little errs much

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.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

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

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

Be quick, but don't hurry.