Action is the foundational key to all success.

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

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write.

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

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my axe.

No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.

The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs are, generally, easily influenced by the opinion of others.

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

Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.

Percentages are why I am rich.

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.

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.

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.