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

No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

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....

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it.

I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it

It’s not about what it is, it’s about what it can become.

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

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

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

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

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

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight

One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn't do.

Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal

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