Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

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

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.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

'To Start Press Any Key'. Where's the ANY key?

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

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

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long they have departed.

It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.

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

Success in life depends on action, that is, on what you do, and not what you Feel or think, and the price of success is hard work.

What I cannot create, I do not understand.

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.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

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.

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.