For 40 hours a week competition is awfully stiff but after that there's very little competition .

Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running.

Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there.

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.

Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have.

F-E-A-R has two meanings: 'Forget Everything And Run' or 'Face Everything And Rise.' The choice is yours.

There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.

It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.

An anniversary is a celebration of the triumph and tragedy of love.

Do the words 'human rights' even exist in this country anymore?

Being normal is grossly over-rated.

I insist on the dignity and God- given potential and work of every child, regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation or what zip code they were born in.

There's a point you get to on the stage where you're not remembering lines but living them, and you reach this pure moment which, really, is more intense than what you can achieve in life.

It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Someone is going to have to explain to me at some time how raising taxes on job-creators is going to create more jobs.

I always say the work is not a celebration as such, because that's sometimes just as weird and excluding and perverse.

I could not become an American citizen. I would not like to become a citizen of a country that has capital punishment.