All achievement, no matter what may be its nature, or its purpose, must begin with an intense, burning desire for something definite.

A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life: not on what you don't want.

A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done.

The new world is as yetbehind the veil of destinyIn my eyes, howeverits dawn has been unveiled

You knows dat in New Orleans is not morning 'til dee sun come up.

I think the biggest challenge is to continue on the same path. I think it's easy to become complacent from the success you've had.

I need to be able to explain myself in context.

I didn't have to audition. That's common, but it had never happened to me before. Normally, I hate auditioning. I need to stew and think... let the character develop and grow inside me.

To defend his purity, Saint Francis of Assisi rolled in the snow, Saint Benedict threw himself into a thorn bush, and Saint Bernard plunged into an icy pond... You - what have you done?

Miss the audience's heart as a filmmaker, and the only wallet that gets hit will be your own. That's because the heart is always the first target in story telling.

An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.

Corporations no longer try to fit square pegs into round holes; they just fit them into square cubicles.