If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

Genius is eternal patience.

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it

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

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

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.

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

If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.

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

At least with me, the match starts much, much earlier than the actual match.

I readily absorb ideas from every source, frequently starting where the last person left off

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?

The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste

Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.

No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times.

One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn't do.