Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

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.

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

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

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.

Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

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

Advertising is legalized lying.

I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.

Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used them...

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

Nothing will work unless you do.

If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.

To those whom much is given, much is expected.

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

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.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone

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