Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice

Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible'.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

All achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Every action has its pleasures and its price.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

If you're bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, you don't have enough goals.

Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

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

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.

Great companies are built on great products.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

The world does not pay men for that which they 'know'. It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.

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

The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? [Like] 'Republican party' [or] 'airplane food'.

Only you can control your future.