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

The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

He who will not economize will have to agonize.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

When things go wrong don't go with them

This is the real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

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

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

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

Boredom is one of the most blissful feelings.

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

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

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight

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

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

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.