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.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.

If youre in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.

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

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.

The successful leader must be willing to assume responsibility for the mistakes and the shortcomings of his followers.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.