Every action has its pleasures and its price.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

I readily absorb ideas from every source, frequently starting where the last person left off

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.

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

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success.

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

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

One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible'.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

He who will not economize will have to agonize.

Boredom is one of the most blissful feelings.

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

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

The only 'break' anyone can afford to rely upon is a self-made 'break'.

Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.