How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that.

If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.

No one who does good work will ever come to a bad end, either here or in the world to come.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.

When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, butt in favors - When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you - When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - You may know that your society is doomed.

The things are mighty few on earth That wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth We've go to work to gain.

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