You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die without publicizing it, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another....

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn't do.

I believe in the Bible. I believe that all good things come from God. I don't believe I'd sing the way I do if God hadn't wanted me to.'

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.

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

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

Genius is eternal patience.

Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

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.

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.

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

Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.

What I cannot create, I do not understand.

To those whom much is given, much is expected.

Without work, all life goes rotten, but when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.

Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.

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