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

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing, knowing that is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a sense of purpose.

Listen if you want to be heard

When things go wrong don't go with them

Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

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

Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.

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

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

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.

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.

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

There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service.

It’s not about what it is, it’s about what it can become.

Work does not kill a man, it is worry, irregularity and uncertainty that kill.