In a professional once engaged, the performance of the job comes first.

There are thousands of causes for stress, and one antidote to stress is self-expression. That's what happens to me every day. My thoughts get off my chest, down my sleeves and onto my pad.

I want everybody to be smart. As smart as they can be. A world of ignorant people is too dangerous to live in.

As is the case with all original creators, Charles Chaplin's working life was an amalgam of arrogant self-confidence and deflating self-doubt.

The best part of one's life is the working part, the creative part. Believe me, I love to succeed... However, the real spiritual and emotional excitement is in the doing.

Amateur feed on hope. Professionals work.

The use of talent is far more important than the possession of talent.

Amateurs hope. Professional work.

Whenever I'm asked what college I attended I'm tempted to reply Thornton Wilder'.

In a professional once engaged the performance of the job comes first.

Amateurs hope. Professionals work.

Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.

Believe you can and you will be halfway there.

There are those who have made their fortunes on other people’s misfortune. The Bible never promised that life would be fair.

When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person... there can be no liberty.

There are many things that I don't understand.

You have to have your face in the food. These days people think a tattoo and a bottle of Sriracha equals success.

It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel.

Suicide was a mortal luxury not afforded to angels.

Under our system every voter and officeholder is a man who has demonstrated through voluntary and difficult service that he places the welfare of the group ahead of personal advantage.

Hitler understood the demagogues' essential principle to teach or persuade is far more difficult than to stir emotion.