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.

The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? [Like] 'Republican party' [or] 'airplane food'.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.

Please all, and you will please none.

I don't believe people die from hard work. They die from stress and worry and fear -- the negative emotions. Those are the killers, not hard work. The fact is, in our society today, most people don't understand what hard work is all about.

There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of lack of ambition.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

What I cannot create, I do not understand.

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.

Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

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.

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

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.

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.

People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail.

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.