As a leader, you will receive a large amount of praise and criticism and you should not unduly affected by either.

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Passion is momentary love is enduring.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character.

Michael could never remember his father ever having uttered a word about death, as if the Don respected death too much to philosophize about it.

Death isn't funny." "Then why are there so many jokes about death? Jill, with us — us humans — death is so sad that we must laugh at it.

I was never one to seek out the spotlight. I am kind of a private person, so I don't miss that part of show business at all.

I was a weak kid, not good at what all the boys at school were good at and I found that by acting, by being other people, I could liberate myself from those inadequacies.

The future of the airlines lay in hauling people, not in hauling mail for the government.

I wish and pray there are a lot of young people with technology and way of thinking that can create a brand new kind of musical theatre.

The act of saying that things exist that cannot be described in words shakes a universe where words are the supreme belief.

I'm the No. 1 living and breathing rock star. I am Axl Rose; I am Jim Morrison; I am Jimi Hendrix.

I'm a big Backstreet Boys fan. I always give y'all shoutouts. I love the things y'all do.

"Lambe them, lads! lambe them!" a cant phrase of the time derived from the fate of Dr. Lambe, an astrologer and quack, who was knocked on the head by the rabble in Charles the First's time.