Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.

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

Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

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

Listen if you want to be heard

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

One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible'.

Riches do not respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

What one has to do usually can be done.

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.

You can observe a lot just by watching.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

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

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.