Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

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

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

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

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

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

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.

Be quick, but don't hurry.

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

Boredom is one of the most blissful feelings.

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

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

It is better to serve like steel than rust and wither away like iron.

Well done is better than well said.

The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs are, generally, easily influenced by the opinion of others.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy

The successful leader must be willing to assume responsibility for the mistakes and the shortcomings of his followers.