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.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

Success in life depends on action, that is, on what you do, and not what you Feel or think, and the price of success is hard work.

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

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

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

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

Listen if you want to be heard

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

Make them laugh, make them cry, and back to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.

It's a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

It is better to serve like steel than rust and wither away like iron.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment

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.

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.

But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder.

If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure

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