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

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

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Dont make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people cant take their eyes off of you.

Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.

All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them

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

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

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

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.

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

Boredom is one of the most blissful feelings.

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

Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.

The finest task for an Engineer – to survey, to plan, to suggest resources and material, assemble them for task in hand, implement and produce results.

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

I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it

Listen if you want to be heard

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

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

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.