Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs are, generally, easily influenced by the opinion of others.

Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way.

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

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.

Dad, you've done a lot of great things, but you're a very old man, and old people are useless.

One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn't do.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

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

This is the real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, that to institute a new order of things

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy

Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.

Work does not kill a man, it is worry, irregularity and uncertainty that kill.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.