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

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

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice

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

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

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.

This is the real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

Advertising is legalized lying.

He who will not economize will have to agonize.

For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.

Riches do not respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.

Please all, and you will please none.

I don't believe people die from hard work. They die from stress and worry and fear -- the negative emotions. Those are the killers, not hard work. The fact is, in our society today, most people don't understand what hard work is all about.

In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun and - SNAP - the job's a game!

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.

If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.

Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become

When things go wrong don't go with them

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