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

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

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

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

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

If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

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

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Success in life depends on action, that is, on what you do, and not what you Feel or think, and the price of success is hard work.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight

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

Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long they have departed.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice

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

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

Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

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

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!