Listen if you want to be heard
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great
I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write.
Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.
Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success.
Dad, you've done a lot of great things, but you're a very old man, and old people are useless.
I`d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
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.
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
Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
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?
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country
When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used them...