I am thankful to all those who said NO to me. It's because of them I did it myself.

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously and never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop this picture!

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

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

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

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.

Real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.

If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.

Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day of your life.

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

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

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

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

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

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

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight

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.