Your work is the single greatest means at your disposal for expressing your social intelligence.

You must always be prepared to place a bet on yourself, on your future, by heading in a direction that others seem to fear.

Never waste valuable time, or mental peace of mind, on the affairs of others—that is too high a price to pay.

True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.

Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge.

Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.

Be Royal in your Own Fashion: Act like a King to be treated

It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.

The world wants to assign you a role in life. And once you accept that role you are doomed.

Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.

No moment is wasted if you pay attention and learn the lessons contained in every experience.

Respect yourself and in time the whole world will respect you.

She felt damned. As though she were marching to her death. She felt like had been sentenced. And yet she felt eerily free.

...never to rush something I was creating, but instead let it come into being as if it had a soul of it's own.

If you constantly think of illness you eventually become ill if you believe yourself to be beautiful you become so.

What I've been noticing is people coming up to me and going, 'Are you an actor?' which is cool. That's ultimately what I want.

Life is a glorious opportunity.

My roots and Victor's are jazz, basically, but these two young fellows that we have with us come out of rock bands. And they're tremendously exciting players.

We should try to be happy, just to set an example

Some people haven't got a life, I suppose. They want to be on the road all the time.

The sole virtue of losing your short-term memory is that it does free you to be your own editor.