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

At least with me, the match starts much, much earlier than the actual match.

The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.

I am thankful to all those who said NO to me. It's because of them I did it myself.

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

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

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

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

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

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

All my life I've had one dream, to achieve my many goals.

Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

Every action has its pleasures and its price.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

As you start to walk out on the way, the way appears.

Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

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.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.