Even the most careful and expensive marketing plans cannot sell people a book they don't want to read.

One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.

To succeed, we must first believe that we can.

To succeed, it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

The more you can dream, the more you can do.

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility in the final analysis. The one quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility.

Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it - ink it!

Luck can often mean simple taking advantage of a situation at the right moment, It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared.

If your position is everywhere, your momentum is zero.

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.

Never reveal all of yourself to other people; hold back something in reserve so that people are never quite sure if they really know you.

I held a nail in place and slammed it with the hammer. Best. Chore. Ever.

You learn more from getting your butt kicked than getting it kissed.

Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.

The thing about romance and romantic movies is that they can be somewhat melodramatic. For a lot of actors, there's a certain cringe factor that's involved with that.

I get offered a World War II movie at least once a week just because I speak German and was born there. I have always stayed away from it because I didn't want to be put into that box.

And I talked to my doctor, and I must admit, you know, I'm sometimes quite renowned for my outbursts and I was just very frustrated, maybe a little frightened.

The known unseen within becomes structural in what is seen: a being functioning as a self, in person, in this world.

There's plenty of intelligence in the world, but the courage to do things differently is in short supply.

I have to have lemon and honey. I have to have apple cider vinegar, Braggs. And I have to have either Red Vines or Twizzlers. These things, you know, are the things that help my vocal performance.

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.