If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.
Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
Fake it until you make it.
This is the real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic
Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.
When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'
Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.
When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.
Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy
The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
As you start to walk out on the way, the way appears.
Please all, and you will please none.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing, knowing that is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a sense of purpose.
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.