I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am.

Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having put forth the best within you.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

I always have to dream up there against the stars. If I don't dream I will make it, I won't even get close.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Having an aim is the key to achieving your best.

You can't sit on the lid of progress. If you do, you will be blown to pieces.

Love people and serve them.

Put your life's plan into determined action and go after what you want with all that's in you.

I think that American salesmanship can be a weapon more powerful than the atomic bomb.

Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly.

As everyone applauds and sips champagne, I smile back at Rachel, thinking she got it just right. Love and friendship. They are what makes us who we are and what can change us, if we let them.

The only people that can't handle the truth are those that suffer so much anxiety that they will live in denial, in order to prevent their illusion from being destroyed and feeling more anxiety.

Do good and inspire others to do good

I tell people all the time that without the fans, I've got nothing.

Keeping stationary drains your brain, but moving around shows you new things, new inspiration, and keeps the blood moving.

We do all the things we can to essentially brainwash people into liking it before it actually comes out.

The life of sense begins by assuming that we can only fitfully live the life of reason.

Most writers are trying to find what they think or feel. . . not simply working from the given, but toward the given, saying the unsayable and steadily asking, "What do I really feel about this?

If you're lucky enough to have something that makes you different, don't ever change.

While it may take generations of nurturing, nations founded on and grounded in freedom will eventually overcome and prosper. Once free, folks rarely accept anything less, and that includes Iraqis.