One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

Listen if you want to be heard

You can observe a lot just by watching.

Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

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

The destination of the seeker… depends on the road he takes.

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

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

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it

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

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.

The only 'break' anyone can afford to rely upon is a self-made 'break'.