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...

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Be quick, but don't hurry.

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

Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.

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.

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.

Every action has its pleasures and its price.

Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success.

Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

Boredom is one of the most blissful feelings.

The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.

If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

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

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

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.

We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.