Greatness is earned, not given.

If you do the bare minimum, expect bare minimum results. You want to be great, work to be great. Nothing just happens

Success isn't owned. It's leased and rent is due every day.

Some people chase money. Some people chase fame. Some chase greatness - and that's what I'm trying to do.

Heard someone say, 'I can't wait until I can finally say I've made it.' The day you think you've 'made it' is the day you begin your decline.

Right now, I am a football player and I will sacrifice whatever is necessary to be the best.

They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.

For the first time in history, my community has had to use air conditioners. Imagine that, air conditioners in the Arctic.

I have a limited amount of time to build a career out of football and be the best that I can be at this job. When this job is over, I have the rest of my life to do what I want with my time.

There is no idea so stupid or hackneyed that a sufficiently-talented writer can't get a good story out of it.

I wanna try and stay a student for life.

The Every Single Women to whom I met they are not happy with their men, and the men either not happy with their women!

I'm going to take the kids away over Christmas but I don't, I've written 14 musicals now, I don't want to rush into doing something just for the sake of doing it. I want to do it when I find a story.

One of the most serious errors, if not the most serious error, committed by colonial powers in Africa, may have been to ignore or underestimate the cultural strength of African peoples.

In most agencies, account executives outnumber the copywriters two to one. If you were a dairy farmer, would you employ twice as many milkers as you had cows?

When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.

Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that.

To act choicelessly is to act in accord with the situation. If someone throws a rock, you duck.

Don't take yourself too seriously - learn to laugh. Hire slowly and fire fast. And the most important thing is: you never invest in ideas, only in people!

Nuclear weaponry, of course, would be the be-all, end-all of just too many people in too many parts of our planet.

I am often disgusted at hearing young people I know, declare that they are afraid of doing this or that, because they MIGHT be killed.