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

To those whom much is given, much is expected.

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.

Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal

Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it.

You can't make souffle rise twice.

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

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

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic

Genius is eternal patience.

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

One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

The successful leader must be willing to assume responsibility for the mistakes and the shortcomings of his followers.