The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used them...

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

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

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

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves

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

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

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

The finest task for an Engineer – to survey, to plan, to suggest resources and material, assemble them for task in hand, implement and produce results.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

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

Well done is better than well said.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

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

Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

You can observe a lot just by watching.