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

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

You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously and never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop this picture!

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

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

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

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

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

If youre in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.

Nothing will work unless you do.

It's a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there

Without work, all life goes rotten, but when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of lack of ambition.

A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die without publicizing it, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another....

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.