No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day of your life.
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.
Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.
People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail.
Every action has its pleasures and its price.
Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.
Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.
If you're bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, you don't have enough goals.
Advertising is legalized lying.
It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.
All achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.