Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success and, above all, love.

If youre in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.

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

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

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

Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.

Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day of your life.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

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

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

I readily absorb ideas from every source, frequently starting where the last person left off

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

When things go wrong don't go with them

There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of lack of ambition.

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

At least with me, the match starts much, much earlier than the actual match.

I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.