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

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

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

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die without publicizing it, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another....

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it

Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine

We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.

No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.

Please all, and you will please none.

Every action has its pleasures and its price.

Success in life depends on action, that is, on what you do, and not what you Feel or think, and the price of success is hard work.

One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible'.