From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

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

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves

I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs

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

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

I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

Please all, and you will please none.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic

Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

You can observe a lot just by watching.

As you start to walk out on the way, the way appears.

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.

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder.