Genius is eternal patience.

If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure

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

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

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

Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.

Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.

Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

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

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

Riches do not respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.

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

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

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

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

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

Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

Boredom is one of the most blissful feelings.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.