Genius is eternal patience.

Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success and, above all, love.

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.

Listen if you want to be heard

Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.

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.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.

Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.

Percentages are why I am rich.

Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.

Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.

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.'

He who thinks little errs much

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? [Like] 'Republican party' [or] 'airplane food'.