Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

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

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

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

Please all, and you will please none.

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

He who will not economize will have to agonize.

The destination of the seeker… depends on the road he takes.

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

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

It’s not about what it is, it’s about what it can become.

Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, that to institute a new order of things

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

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

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.'

If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy

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

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

Advertising is legalized lying.