If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure

The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.

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

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my axe.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

All achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

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

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

He who will not economize will have to agonize.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

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.

It's a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there

A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die without publicizing it, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another....

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.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times.

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

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