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.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste

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

Please all, and you will please none.

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure

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....

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?

What I cannot create, I do not understand.

I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write.

Vision without execution is just hallucination.

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

Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.

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

Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day of your life.

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

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