If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my axe.
There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of lack of ambition.
When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.
Action is the foundational key to all success.
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.
I readily absorb ideas from every source, frequently starting where the last person left off
I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
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.
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.
The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.
But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder.
Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
Real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.
Listen if you want to be heard
Genius is eternal patience.