When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

Listen if you want to be heard

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.

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

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my axe.

The only 'break' anyone can afford to rely upon is a self-made 'break'.

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?

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!

Percentages are why I am rich.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

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

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

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

Genius is eternal patience.

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

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

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs

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

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.