One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

Be quick, but don't hurry.

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

There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, that to institute a new order of things

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

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

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

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it

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

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

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

Boredom is one of the most blissful feelings.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

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

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.