Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice

Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.

Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success.

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.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

The destination of the seeker… depends on the road he takes.

Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

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

If your business is only to sweep a crossing, remember it is your duty to make that crossing the best swept of the world.

The world does not pay men for that which they 'know'. It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.

Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

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

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

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

Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

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.

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....