When one is altering the face of the universe one cannot remember small helpful acts.

Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim.

Success of life depends upon keeping one's mind open to opportunity and seizing it when it comes.

There is romance in coffee. It comes from the ends of the earth, and goes to the far corners of man's habitation.

... the deep experience of the lonely climb on the mountain of success brings a wealth beyond power to compute. To you all suffering is understandable and your heart opens wide in sympathy.

One must eliminate the traditional and cling to the essential.

Really to succeed, we must give; of our souls to the soulless, of our love to the lonely, of our intelligence to the dull. Business is quite as much a process of giving as it is of getting.

The small perplexities of small minds eddy and boil about you. Confident from the experience that has led you out of these same dangers, you attack each problem as it appears, unafraid.

for the poor the whole world is a self-constituted critic; your smallest action is open to debate. No secret place of your soul is safe from invasion.

Not only is orderliness an economy; it produces rest.

I simply don't believe in failure. In itself, it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail.

When we confuse the needs with the desires

The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly.

Poetry itself hasn't been well served by poets who fled to the margins.

I just like the comic book sensibility. If I can turn them into films and TV series, that's just icing on the cake.

The boy who walks in the light.

If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.

What I sometimes mistake for ecstasy is simply the absence of grief.

I want to get away from the high school thing and do other types of roles.

A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.

Any show in its first season is going to probably have some growing pains.