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

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing, knowing that is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a sense of purpose.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success.

Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

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

Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

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....

'To Start Press Any Key'. Where's the ANY key?

If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

What I cannot create, I do not understand.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone

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

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

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

I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing