It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs

Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long they have departed.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing, knowing that is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a sense of purpose.

The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

Kill my boss? Do I dare live out the American dream?

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

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

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice

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

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.

I am thankful to all those who said NO to me. It's because of them I did it myself.

One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible'.

I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.

It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.