Real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.

Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times.

The successful leader must plan his work and work his plan.

Only you can control your future.

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

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.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine

For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

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

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.