The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.
Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.
It is better to serve like steel than rust and wither away like iron.
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? [Like] 'Republican party' [or] 'airplane food'.
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success and, above all, love.
Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It s courage that counts.
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.
The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.
Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals
No man ever achieved worthwhile success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
Don't mistake activity with achievement.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used them...
We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously and never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop this picture!
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing, knowing that is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a sense of purpose.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Kill my boss? Do I dare live out the American dream?
