“Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.”

True life lies in laughter, love and work.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked.

Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.

Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.

What others say of me matters little; what I myself say and do matters much.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

We make our money out of our friends. Our enemies will not do business with us.

Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.

A goal without a plan is a dream.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

I would steal the sun, if that is what it took to bring the light back into your eyes.

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

You told me you went to hell and back for my sake, when I see your face no signs or trace or effort “for my sake”; here you go again with your lies, go back to hell where you’re welcome to stay.

People leave because staying requires effort.

If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.

I try to choose characters that don’t remind the audience of my previous roles. I make a conscious effort for that.

If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.