I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.

Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere read more

Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void.

Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

It's not enough that I should succeed -- others should fail.

It's not enough that I should succeed -- others should fail.

There is no substitute for hard work.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Nothing recedes like success.

Nothing recedes like success.

Those who know don't tell and those who tell don't know.

Those who know don't tell and those who tell don't know.