Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.

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

Make them laugh, make them cry, and back to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

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

In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun and - SNAP - the job's a game!

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

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.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice

One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

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

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.

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

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

What I cannot create, I do not understand.