Listen if you want to be heard

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

If you're bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, you don't have enough goals.

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it

It is better to serve like steel than rust and wither away like iron.

Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.

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

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

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.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

Only you can control your future.

The finest task for an Engineer – to survey, to plan, to suggest resources and material, assemble them for task in hand, implement and produce results.

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.

We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

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.