If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time.

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

Real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.

It's a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

Work does not kill a man, it is worry, irregularity and uncertainty that kill.

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

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

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.

Every action has its pleasures and its price.

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.

For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.

I readily absorb ideas from every source, frequently starting where the last person left off

I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.

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.

There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service.

No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.