Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success and, above all, love.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.

Please all, and you will please none.

Well done is better than well said.

Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.

People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

Every action has its pleasures and its price.

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

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.