Academic success depends on research and publications.

Nothing recedes like success.

I define success as being comfortable with yourself and your life. And that is about as good as it gets, really.

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.

Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.

The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.