When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

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

I readily absorb ideas from every source, frequently starting where the last person left off

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

You reach a point where you don't work for money.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

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

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long they have departed.

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

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Dad, you've done a lot of great things, but you're a very old man, and old people are useless.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

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

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment

For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.