Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems.

Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success.

Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat.

Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.

Construct your determination with sustained effort, controlled attention, and concentrated energy. Opportunities never come to those who wait ... they are captured by those who dare to attack.

Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.

90% of all those who fail are not actually defeated. They simply quit.

Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.

Your mind believes what you tell it.

If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is simply because your goals are not clearly defined.

A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action.

The difficulties of people should be our business.

A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

I do not look upon my life as a sacrifice at all.

I studied acting in school and then of course couldn't get an acting job.

If I listened to my instincts, I'd be down at the pub chasing women, not under a 400 pound bar squatting

When you can't wait for your ship to come in, you've got to row out to it.

It was only when he was back in bed that it struck Harry that Dumbledore might not have been quite truthful. But then, it had been a quite personal question.

There's no way that if you get participation out of a person can they say you didn't rock it.

Even though at 17 it was limited, I had a life before Batman.

Self pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.