Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.

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

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it.

There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service.

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.

Without work, all life goes rotten, but when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight

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

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

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

I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.

Nothing will work unless you do.

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

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

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun and - SNAP - the job's a game!

If you're bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, you don't have enough goals.

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

If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves