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

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Apple's market share is bigger than BMW's or Mercedes's or Porsche's in the automotive market. What's wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?

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

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

Vision without execution is just hallucination.

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

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

Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

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.

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

It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.

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

Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.

I readily absorb ideas from every source, frequently starting where the last person left off

You can't make souffle rise twice.