If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.

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

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

I believe in the Bible. I believe that all good things come from God. I don't believe I'd sing the way I do if God hadn't wanted me to.'

He who thinks little errs much

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

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

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

Success comes to those who become success conscious. Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing, knowing that is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a sense of purpose.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Every action has its pleasures and its price.

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

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.

All my life I've had one dream, to achieve my many goals.

Action is the foundational key to all success.