You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

Genius is eternal patience.

You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

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

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing

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.'

For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.

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

A company is only as good as the people it keeps.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?