With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.
One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible'.
If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
Great companies are built on great products.
Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
Nothing will work unless you do.
Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way.
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.
It is no use saying 'we are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
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.
Dad, you've done a lot of great things, but you're a very old man, and old people are useless.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
It's a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there
Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.
What I cannot create, I do not understand.
It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.