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

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

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

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.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

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

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy

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

You can't make souffle rise twice.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

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

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion.

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.

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