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

Listen if you want to be heard

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

Please all, and you will please none.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

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.

The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.

If it's me against 48, I feel sorry for the 48.

Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way.

Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.

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

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

Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.

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

The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

Every action has its pleasures and its price.