Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.

But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice

If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves

The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? [Like] 'Republican party' [or] 'airplane food'.

If youre in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.

Kill my boss? Do I dare live out the American dream?

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

Boredom is one of the most blissful feelings.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.

What one has to do usually can be done.

It's a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there

Every action has its pleasures and its price.