Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way.

No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

At least with me, the match starts much, much earlier than the actual match.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

Advertising is legalized lying.

Make them laugh, make them cry, and back to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.

Be quick, but don't hurry.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

Vision without execution is just hallucination.

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.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

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.

Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice

It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.

Genius is eternal patience.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine