Without work, all life goes rotten, but when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

Only you can control your future.

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

Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

Vision without execution is just hallucination.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs

I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write.

We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

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

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.

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

Be quick, but don't hurry.

The finest task for an Engineer – to survey, to plan, to suggest resources and material, assemble them for task in hand, implement and produce results.

If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves

Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.