A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You have to set yourself on fire.

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Parents can tell but never teach, unless they practice what they preach.

The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

A consultant is someone who saves his client almost enough to pay his fee.

Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.

Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.

Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.

The men sit around getting fat and arguing with each other about something they call “philosophy” - most of which is pure nonsense.

Sometimes the closer you are to the truth, the harder it is to see.

Sometimes I wanted to take a memory - one perfect memory - curl up in it, and go to sleep.

If you just can’t get rid of envy, then start creating a life, so that if you saw yourself from afar, you’d be envious of you.

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

As a director who loves the camera you learn a lot.

Dictators free themselves by enslaving others. They work not for your benefit, but their own.

I was shy and a hard worker, so acting was a way to focus whatever nervous energy I was experiencing onto a goal.

It is not how many years we live, but what we do with them.

There are many special interests skilful at manipulating circumstances and communications in such a way as to benefit their own ends and not necessarily the public good.