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

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

He who will not economize will have to agonize.

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? [Like] 'Republican party' [or] 'airplane food'.

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

If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.

Please all, and you will please none.

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

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.

The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.

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

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.

All my life I've had one dream, to achieve my many goals.

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?