No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country

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.

Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die without publicizing it, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another....

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.

This is the real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

Listen if you want to be heard

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

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

Vision without execution is just hallucination.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

At least with me, the match starts much, much earlier than the actual match.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.