Observe, Remember, Compare.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.

The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.

Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone and following one after the other like a flock of sheep. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods.

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

Carry the fire.

Good deeds awaken the good spirit of every soul.

I really can't watch myself. I just get too in my head about it and start overthinking everything.

It is the middle of December now, and we are about to travel to Switzerland - where we plan to ski a little, relax a little, and shoot a Dutch politician a little.

Capital must work, as it were, in concert with industry; and this concurrence is what I call the productive agency of capital.

It is not important to be better than someone else, but to be better than yesterday.

Next to my husband and along with Marlon Brando, Yves Montand is the most attractive man I've ever met.

Flattery has to overcome my mistrust, and it does.

I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.

Be realistic: Plan for a miracle