“Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.”

An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.

Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success ? for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own self-respect.

The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.

I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making.

The Bible says, ‘Where there is no vision, the people perish.’ Have you a vision? And are you undeviatingly pressing and pushing toward its accomplishment? Dreaming alone will not get you there. Mix your dreams with determination and action.

He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

Plan your work – work your plan

Kill time and you will kill your career.

The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.

In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.

Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.

Bragging often precedes begging.

It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.

The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.

Backboneless employees are too ready to attribute the success of others to luck. Luck is usually the fruit of intelligent application. The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

I’ve been able to work for so long because I think next time, I’ll make something good.

If we do not take this road of dialogue and understanding then I fear for the next generation.

I might make a specific choice for myself and then in the next episode the writers might write something that contradicts it.

Whereas if you have the chance to create and produce your next movie that keeps you busier, it gives you more options and hopefully enables you to make the type of movies you’re passionate about.

Whenever a songwriter writes a big hit, then the next 20 songs they write – no matter how bad they are – get recorded.

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.

All that seems like error is not error; and it all has to be done. That which seems like a false step is the next step.

If you can reincarnate, what do you wanna be in your next life? I think I want to become a rock.