No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

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

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

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

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

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

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

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service.

Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it.

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 your business is only to sweep a crossing, remember it is your duty to make that crossing the best swept of the world.

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

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

God sells us all things at the price of labor.

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

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

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Players with fight never lose a game, they just run out of time

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