Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.

I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.

Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.

I've had some lovely extraordinary experiences on New Year's Eve.

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

We are what we believe we are.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

You don't need a silver fork to eat good food.

As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

There is no substitute for victory.

A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.