I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

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.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

You can observe a lot just by watching.

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.

Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing, knowing that is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a sense of purpose.

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

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.

Advertising is legalized lying.

Nothing will work unless you do.

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

If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

What I cannot create, I do not understand.

We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.

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

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.