You can't make souffle rise twice.

The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? [Like] 'Republican party' [or] 'airplane food'.

The successful leader must be willing to assume responsibility for the mistakes and the shortcomings of his followers.

No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

Only you can control your future.

I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write.

If youre in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.

Players with fight never lose a game, they just run out of time

Genius is eternal patience.

Listen if you want to be heard

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?

All my life I've had one dream, to achieve my many goals.

Nothing will work unless you do.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.

It is no use saying 'we are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

I readily absorb ideas from every source, frequently starting where the last person left off