Being an American, what I've noticed is that we're in such a race. You wake up and you realize you're in the middle of a race, and some people are running right by you.

I don't believe that hard work equals success. It can, and maybe it should, but I know that it doesn't. There's a very slight relationship between the two.

Don't ever let someone tell you, you can't do something. Not even me. You got a dream, you got to protect it.

As an american, you're born aiming so high - boys want to play in the major leagues, girls want to be princesses. We're cultivating little champions. It's like the land of little champions.

I think the challenges should be familiar. They should have some relationship to the feelings.

I think fate is massive, and it's never really had its place among forces we respect as having control over us.

It's an absolute myth that early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. Of course it doesn't.

I just think that movies are really fake; they should be fake.

I think squaring up success to equal money is silly, because it's so undeserved.

In the thunder of life, without your light, I often lost my way.

A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.

You cannot expect stone to be as pliable as clay.

We sort of expect to see men in women's clothes. It's part of our culture. The key thing is, it has to be done quite badly.

We thought everybody read comics. We didn't know we were weird. We didn't know people that collected comics were strange. It was as normal as listening to rock music on the radio.

I can assure you that flying saucers, given that they exist, are not constructed by any power on Earth.

Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.

If you can create even the illusion of high profitability for a few years, then when the thing collapses you can walk out of the wreckage a very rich man.

A can-do attitude, a positive personality, and a strong work ethic are still the primary ingredients for success at Nordstrom.

But it's just been recently that Nashville has started to feel like home.