Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Genius is eternal patience.

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.

This is the real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

Riches do not respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.

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

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

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.

Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

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

Dad, you've done a lot of great things, but you're a very old man, and old people are useless.

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

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.

If you're bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, you don't have enough goals.