Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.

Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and prepared to assume responsibilities.

You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.

You can succeed if nobody else believes it, but you will never succeed if you don't believe in yourself.

Your greatness is measured by your kindness.

Beware of ignorance when in motion; look out for inexperience when in action, and beware of the majority when mentally poisoned with misinformation, for collective ignorance does not become wisdom.

You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.

To fall in love with pain is to fall in love with art.

Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.

We are not here in this world to drift like seaweed. Whatever intelligence we have, it is our duty to drive to the utmost.

I don't care about the money. I just need, as an actor, to do as many different things that I can to make me feel good about myself.

Requests give direction to love, but demands stop the flow of love.

Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest.

Experience gives us the tests first and the lessons later.

Acting can be a really silly thing. It's like playing dress-up.

The idea of the solitary hero can be quite an unhealthy one, and we need to pool our efforts and be heroic together!

To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin".