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

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.

I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

I believe in the Bible. I believe that all good things come from God. I don't believe I'd sing the way I do if God hadn't wanted me to.'

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

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.

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

Only you can control your future.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

No man ever achieved worthwhile success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.