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

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

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

I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write.

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

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

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

What one has to do usually can be done.

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.

If your business is only to sweep a crossing, remember it is your duty to make that crossing the best swept of the world.

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

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them

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.

You can observe a lot just by watching.