Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

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

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

I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.

Well done is better than well said.

Boredom is one of the most blissful feelings.

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.

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

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.

The destination of the seeker… depends on the road he takes.

What I cannot create, I do not understand.

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it

To those whom much is given, much is expected.

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.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my axe.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

There is little success where there is little laughter.