Be quick, but don't hurry.

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

Kill my boss? Do I dare live out the American dream?

Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion.

I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.

The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.

A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure

I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing

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

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs

Nothing will work unless you do.

Only you can control your future.

Boredom is one of the most blissful feelings.

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

All my life I've had one dream, to achieve my many goals.

I am thankful to all those who said NO to me. It's because of them I did it myself.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

I readily absorb ideas from every source, frequently starting where the last person left off