If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure

Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

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.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

I readily absorb ideas from every source, frequently starting where the last person left off

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.

And that is the reason why this victory is great, because different players have made contributions to the win.

One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible'.

Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

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

I believe in the Bible. I believe that all good things come from God. I don't believe I'd sing the way I do if God hadn't wanted me to.'

I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

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