Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Success is based on imagination plus ambition and the will to work.

Somewhere between the ages of eleven and fifteen, the average child begins to suffer from an atrophy, the paralysis of curiosity and the suspension of the power to observe. The trouble, I should judge, to lie with the schools.

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

My mother was the making of me.