I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write.

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

To those whom much is given, much is expected.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.

The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Success comes to those who become success conscious. Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious.

Please all, and you will please none.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone

If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.

The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? [Like] 'Republican party' [or] 'airplane food'.

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.

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.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way.

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