Every action has its pleasures and its price.

Please all, and you will please none.

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

It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.

I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing

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.

Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.

The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

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

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

All achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Well done is better than well said.

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