The successful always has a number of projects planned, to which he looks forward. Anyone of them could change the course of his life overnight.

Meticulous planning will enable everything a man does to appear spontaneous.

There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The successful one has this over his rivals: he knows where he is going.

You cannot live on other people's promises, but if you promise others enough, you can live on your own.

You are beginning to see that any man to whom you can do favor is your friend, and that you can do a favor to almost anyone.

There is nothing wrong in using people. The success never uses people except to their advantage.

There is nothing that puts a man more in your debt than that he owes you nothing.

At all times it is better to have a method.

A barrier is of ideas, not of things.

To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

The failure wishes he could do things he could never do. He thinks little of what he can do.

But maybe that's how it is with art. You suffer, and in the end, everyone thinks it's cool.

Every time my head hit the pillow, I wondered why I had ever left my bed in the first place.

What's the difference between a bright, inquisitive five-year-old, and a dull, stupid nineteen-year-old? Fourteen years of the British educational system.

Whatever happened to him?" Silk asked. "He went swimming in the Nedrane." "I didn't know that Thulls swam all that well." "They don't–particularly not with large rocks tied to their feet.

A beautiful country is a dream-like illusion. It is senseless to cling to it. Unless the inner forces of negative emotions are conquered, strife with outer enemies will never end.

I visited those friends who'd just had a baby, and she was washing dishes and he was cleaning the house, and I burst with happiness. And in their minds, they were in this terrible domestic rut

You just do as many shows as you can to hone what it is you're working on.

when I hide something, it stays hid, until I want it found.

I confidently affirm that the greater part of those who are supposed to have died of gout, have died of the medicine rather than the disease - a statement in which I am supported by observation.

Let us resolve the internal political problems of Russia ourselves