Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.

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

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs

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

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

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.

Only you can control your future.

I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write.

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

As you start to walk out on the way, the way appears.

It’s not about what it is, it’s about what it can become.

I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

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

Be quick, but don't hurry.

Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it.

It is no use saying 'we are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

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