Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.
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.'
If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.
Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.
The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
To those whom much is given, much is expected.
I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it
No man ever achieved worthwhile success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
The world does not pay men for that which they 'know'. It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.
There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service.
Advertising is legalized lying.
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.
The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.
