If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

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.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used them...

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

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

He who will not economize will have to agonize.

What one has to do usually can be done.

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.

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

God sells us all things at the price of labor.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

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

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy