A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

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

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

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

Boredom is one of the most blissful feelings.

Listen if you want to be heard

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

Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

To those whom much is given, much is expected.

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

Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

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

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?

One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn't do.

If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.

There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service.

The successful leader must plan his work and work his plan.

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

You can observe a lot just by watching.

It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.

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.