Boredom is one of the most blissful feelings.

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.

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

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine

If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight

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

All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

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....

The successful leader must be willing to assume responsibility for the mistakes and the shortcomings of his followers.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'

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