We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

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

I believe in the Bible. I believe that all good things come from God. I don't believe I'd sing the way I do if God hadn't wanted me to.'

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

No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die without publicizing it, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another....

Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.

Advertising is legalized lying.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.

I`d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used them...

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.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy