To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

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

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

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Riches do not respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

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

But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder.

One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible'.

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

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

If you're bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, you don't have enough goals.

Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.

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

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs

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

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

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