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

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.

All my life I've had one dream, to achieve my many goals.

Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success and, above all, love.

Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.

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....

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

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.

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

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

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

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

When things go wrong don't go with them

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.

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