You never work for someone else. The truth is someone is paying you to work for yourself.

Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success.

Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat.

Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.

Construct your determination with sustained effort, controlled attention, and concentrated energy. Opportunities never come to those who wait ... they are captured by those who dare to attack.

Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems.

Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.

90% of all those who fail are not actually defeated. They simply quit.

Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.

Your mind believes what you tell it.

If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is simply because your goals are not clearly defined.

... dançava para si mesmo, um homem nu entre cegos...

Some days I don't know what is greater.My wisdom, or my stupidity.

The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.

There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live.

What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time.

Well I've been writing books. So that, by its nature, is kind of a solitary occupation. And from time to time I have research help, but mostly I've done those completely on my own.

In the garden I will die. In the rosebush they will kill me.

A fool acquires knowledge only to his own disadvantage. It destroys what good he has, and turns his brains.

Fashion is what you're offered four times a year. Style is what you pick out of that fashion...