“It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.”

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

You can do anything if you have enthusiasm.

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

Whatever you resist will persist.

Mediocrity is the worst enemy of prosperity.

The two most important things in any company do not appear in its balance sheet: its reputation and its people.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.

Whatever your goal in life, the beginning is knowledge and experience.

The man who has the largest capacity for work and thought is the man who is bound to succeed.

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

It is failure that is easy. Success is always hard.

With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

If you would attain to your highest, go look upon a flower;what the flower does willessly, that do willingly.

The more profoundly we study this wonderful Book, and the more closely we observe its divine precepts, the better citizens we will become and the higher will be our destiny as a nation.

Men keep their agreements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them; and I shall so frame my laws that it will be evident to the Athenians that it will be for their interest to observe them.

If you wish to know yourself observe how others act. If you wish to understand others look into your own heart.

As an actor, you people-watch, you observe. And the more famous you become, the sad thing is you lose the ability to do that. Instead of people-watching, you become the focus of attention.

When sometimes, behind his back, they called him a tyrant, he merely smiled and uttered this profound observation: If some day I turn liberal, they will say I have let them down.

Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.

I’ve always felt like I was observing everything, like I’m just looking out of the window, peeping how everybody is living and just penning about it, so I made the album about that concept.