If your business is only to sweep a crossing, remember it is your duty to make that crossing the best swept of the world.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

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

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

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

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

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

No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

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

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

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

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

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my axe.

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....