Every young man or woman should weigh the matter well before concluding that a college education is out of the question.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.

It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'

What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort.

How you ever gonna reach the starsIf you never get off the ground?

There's no getting rid of you. You are already in my bloodstream and woven into the marrow of my bones.

I am not an icon of democracy. You are all, collectively, the icon of democracy.

I am not a great planner, so I have just a vague idea. And then I start to find out what kind of book I actually want to write.

Truth isn’t in accounts but in account-books.

Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back?

The trick is, to treat your days as if each one may be your last.

But I wouldn't call myself sadistic.

A person with friends need never be bored. There is always more to fathom and enjoy in the complexity of others, and always the possibility of finding a way to delight them.

Then I did one fight scene, and they said it looked good. Because I did it well enough, they've given me more.