We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.

Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long they have departed.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

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

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

No man ever achieved worthwhile success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?

One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn't do.

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

The world does not pay men for that which they 'know'. It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.

Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

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

The destination of the seeker… depends on the road he takes.

Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.