We're all victims of our own hubris at times.

I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling... to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift.

Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.

Stay true to your brand and true to your voice and audiences will respond to that authenticity with enthusiasm and passion.

People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone's reasons in the same box.

The only thing worse than a loser is someone who won't admit he played badly.

You have to always be ready, always be alive, and always be willing to move in a new direction.

I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman.

Mediocrity is the elephant in the room.

I think you need the failures to get the success. You learn more from that.

The story is everything, which means it's our job to tell better stories.

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

It's not courage so much as stubbornness, " Alice said frankly. Her lips curled back from her teeth in a grim smile. "I don't like to lose.

Men learn while they teach.

In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

I may not remember, but I never forget.

Waking up and having a project to work on is one of life's great pleasures.

A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten . . .

I love Christmas. Frosty the Snowman, peace on Earth and mangers, Salvation Army bell ringers and reindeer, the movie 'Meet Me in St. Louis,' office parties and cookies.

Every German soldier must be made to feel that he is living under the muzzle of a Russian gun.

Religion is no more national than conscience.