Without work, all life goes rotten, but when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.

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

Every action has its pleasures and its price.

Boredom is one of the most blissful feelings.

There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of lack of ambition.

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice

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.

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

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

Advertising is legalized lying.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

All achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.

Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure

Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.

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

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.