“Never follow somebody else's path it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone... the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.”

“When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.”

“You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it!”

“To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.”

“I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.”

“Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.”

“Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.”

“I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself you want to try even harder to make it work.”

“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”

“For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.”

“I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.”

“Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.”

“We don't have enough support for maternal leave and the kinds of things that some of the European countries do. So we still make it hard on women to go into the work force and feel that they can be good at work but then doing the most important job, which is raising your children in a responsible and positive way.”

“I have to work really hard, eight shows a week, to get a nice check as an actor. But when I write a play, and it's a - knock wood - hit, the checks come in for many years.”

“No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.”

“I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work.”

“All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.”

“We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn't come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn't resurging. It didn't work out.”

“Look I eat really well and I work out, but I also indulge when I want to. I don't starve myself in an extremist way. You're not taking away my coffee or my dairy or my glass of wine because I'd be devastated.”

“Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.”

“It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.”