Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.

If youre in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.

Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success and, above all, love.

Well done is better than well said.

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

No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country

Riches do not respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.

The successful leader must be willing to assume responsibility for the mistakes and the shortcomings of his followers.

I am thankful to all those who said NO to me. It's because of them I did it myself.

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

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

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

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

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

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy

Success in life depends on action, that is, on what you do, and not what you Feel or think, and the price of success is hard work.

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.