Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Kill my boss? Do I dare live out the American dream?

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

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

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

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.

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

Dad, you've done a lot of great things, but you're a very old man, and old people are useless.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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