Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.

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.

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

Riches do not respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write.

Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.

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

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.

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

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

A company is only as good as the people it keeps.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

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

Real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

Listen if you want to be heard