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

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

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.

The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? [Like] 'Republican party' [or] 'airplane food'.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of lack of ambition.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

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

In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun and - SNAP - the job's a game!

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

The only 'break' anyone can afford to rely upon is a self-made 'break'.

Riches do not respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.