No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Work does not kill a man, it is worry, irregularity and uncertainty that kill.

If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.

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.

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

Well done is better than well said.

Be quick, but don't hurry.

Real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

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

It is better to serve like steel than rust and wither away like iron.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times.

Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day of your life.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic

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.

It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.

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

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