Anytime you stop striving to get better, you're bound to get worse.

There are only two options regarding commitment; you’re either in or you’re out.

A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

Shoulda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done. In attacking adversity, only a positive attitude, alertness, and regrouping to basics can launch a comeback.

Excellence happens when you try each day to both do and be, a little better than you were yesterday!

The key to teamwork is to learn a role, accept a role, and strive to become excellent playing it.

Don't let other people tell you what you want.

The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.

A marriage based only on physical attraction or romantic emotions is almost certainly doomed to failure right from the start.

If an art form is marginalized it's because it's not speaking to people.

Nobody knows better than I do what the pressures of party leadership can do to a young family. It tore mine apart.

If my husband cheated on me and embarrassed me like that, I will embarrass him more than he could ever imagine.

I don't ever watch myself. By watching, you try to perfect yourself, become a robot.

Space is unimaginably big.

I am not likely to die of bashfulness but neither am I prepared to be crucified to attest the perfection of my art. I dislike to hear of any stray heroics on the prowl for me.

I've done a lot of crafts in my day. I learned how to do pottery, yoga... and I just wanted to share and talk and write.

I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.