I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

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

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

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

One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.

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!

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

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

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

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

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic

Dad, you've done a lot of great things, but you're a very old man, and old people are useless.

I don't believe people die from hard work. They die from stress and worry and fear -- the negative emotions. Those are the killers, not hard work. The fact is, in our society today, most people don't understand what hard work is all about.

We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

And that is the reason why this victory is great, because different players have made contributions to the win.

Please all, and you will please none.

All achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.