It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

Kill my boss? Do I dare live out the American dream?

I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it

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

I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing

Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used them...

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

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

Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day of your life.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

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.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

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

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Listen if you want to be heard

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.

God sells us all things at the price of labor.

Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.

Make them laugh, make them cry, and back to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.