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

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

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

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

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

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

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

I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.

Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.