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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

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We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.
Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'
Common sense is not so common.
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
There is no greater glory than love, nor any greater punishment than jealousy.
Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
When it comes to Father's Day, I will remember my dad for both being there to nurture me and also for the times he gave me on my own to cultivate my own interests and to nurture my own spirit.
Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.
Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
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.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.
It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.
Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
A year from now, you're gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.