Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day of your life.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Make them laugh, make them cry, and back to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.

It is better to serve like steel than rust and wither away like iron.

All achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

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

If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

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

Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

Kill my boss? Do I dare live out the American dream?

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

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

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.