The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.

It is none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike at him as hard as you can and as often as you can, and keep moving on.

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

No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

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.