If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

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

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing

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

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

Nothing will work unless you do.

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

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

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

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

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

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 solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.