It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

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.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

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

Only you can control your future.

Every action has its pleasures and its price.

Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

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

There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, that to institute a new order of things

Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.

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

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.

I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.