The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.

In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun and - SNAP - the job's a game!

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Well done is better than well said.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

The only 'break' anyone can afford to rely upon is a self-made 'break'.

Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it.

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.

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

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

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

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

There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, that to institute a new order of things

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

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.

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.