Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.
Make them laugh, make them cry, and back to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.
It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.
Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.
Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing, knowing that is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a sense of purpose.
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.
Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.
The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail.
Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.
