It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.

Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion.

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.

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

I don't believe people die from hard work. They die from stress and worry and fear -- the negative emotions. Those are the killers, not hard work. The fact is, in our society today, most people don't understand what hard work is all about.

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

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my axe.

Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.

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

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

If it's me against 48, I feel sorry for the 48.

He who will not economize will have to agonize.

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

Players with fight never lose a game, they just run out of time

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine