But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder.
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
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.'
When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.
It’s not about what it is, it’s about what it can become.
If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.
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.
Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become
Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.
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
The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
The world does not pay men for that which they 'know'. It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
You reach a point where you don't work for money.