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

Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'

I`d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

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

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

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.

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

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

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.

The destination of the seeker… depends on the road he takes.

But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder.

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

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine

God sells us all things at the price of labor.