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

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.

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

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

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

You can't make souffle rise twice.

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.

I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously and never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop this picture!

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

Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It s courage that counts.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment

God sells us all things at the price of labor.

Be quick, but don't hurry.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

A holding company is the people you give your money to while you're being searched.

One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible'.

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.