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.

Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.

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

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.

Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

To those whom much is given, much is expected.

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.

If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure

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

Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone

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

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.