The right to happiness is fundamental.
To follow, without halt, one aim: that's the secret of success.
When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.
When I see you plodding along through the rain in dull, drab mackintoshes, with your noses tucked into your collars, I long to offer you a little advice. It is this: fight the weather with contrasts ....
Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.
No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.
To tend unfailingly unflinchingly towards a goal is the secret of success.
God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.
Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.
What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause but in the satisfaction of feeling that one is realizing one's ideal.