Life is playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes along.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future, too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to speak.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

A fast way to demolish relationships, shatter credibility and disrespect yourself is by not following through when you say you are going to do something.

Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.

Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds.

Instead of dirt and poison we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.

No all storms come to disrupt your life, some come to clear your path.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win—if you don't, you won't.

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn.

It matters not what goal you seek It's secret here reposes; You've got to dig from week to week To get Results and Roses.

The perils of overwork are slight compared to the dangers of inactivity.

There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.