If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

I don't believe people die from hard work. They die from stress and worry and fear -- the negative emotions. Those are the killers, not hard work. The fact is, in our society today, most people don't understand what hard work is all about.

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.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

The successful leader must plan his work and work his plan.

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

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.

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

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

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

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

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

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

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

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

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

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

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.