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.

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs

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.

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.'

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

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

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

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

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

A company is only as good as the people it keeps.

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

Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.

Without work, all life goes rotten, but when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.