Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it.

The real secret of success is enthusiasm.

The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers.

The real secret of success is enthusiasm. Yes, more than enthusiasm, I would say excitement. I like to see men get excited. When they get excited they make a success of their lives.

To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.

I like to build things, I like to do things. I am having a lot of fun .

I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.

Well, some people create their own opportunities; others go where opportunities are the greatest; others fail to recognize opportunity when they are face to face with it.

It devolves upon the United States to help motorize the world.

Collecting has always been in my blood.

I am sorry about the person who is not truly excited about his job. He will not only never truly be happy there, but he won't achieve anything great.

The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist.

Music is good for everybody. They say it soothes the savage beast. Well, I think theirs a beast in all of us. So let's get some more music and soothe all the beasts out there.

Our fate is determined by how far we are prepared to push ourselves to stay alive - the decisions we make to survive. We must do whatever it takes to endure and make it through alive.

I hadn't done just a straight-out comedy in a long time, just letting an ensemble do really good character acting, having them carry the movie as in my earlier pictures

You can't spell believe without a lie in the middle.

A powerful agent is the right word: it lights the reader's way and makes it plain.

Not everything is a lesson. Sometimes you just fail.

Priests are often well-meaning people who haven't yet looked too thoroughly into comparative religion.

Idiot! Lunatic! Moron! Jackass! Selfish irresponsible fool!

I was dreaming ... about my grandfather. A very old man, at least as old as I am now, 91. I thought, when I was a boy, that he had been 91 all his life. Now I feel as if I have been 91 all my life.