Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way.

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

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

Real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It s courage that counts.

If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure

I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write.

All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

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

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

The destination of the seeker… depends on the road he takes.

Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success.

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

Nothing will work unless you do.

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

And that is the reason why this victory is great, because different players have made contributions to the win.

Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.