Imaginative truth is the most immediate way of presenting ultimate reality to a human being... ultimate reality is what we call God.

When the need to succeed is as bad as the need to breathe, then you’ll be successful.

I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

There is no substitute for Hard Work.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

The enemies of a people are those who keep them in ignorance.

There is simply no limit to the tyrannical snobbery that otherwise decent people can descend into when it comes to music.

why be bothered with other people's set-ups? it only leads to torture.

I usually decide what to wear in the morning, but sometimes, I'll have a favorite coat or sweater or shoes, and I'll wear them everyday for a week!

I feel that in horror movies, especially, if you don't care about the characters, you've lost the audience. No one cares, and it becomes a process of watching people get killed.

The thing that moves us to pride or shame is not the mere mechanical reflection of ourselves but the imagined effect of this reflection upon another's mind.

Justice is achieved only when injustice is absent.

Give guilt - the gift that lasts forever.

A Temple is one of the best ways of benefiting other living beings - it is the best form of public service.

Antiquity was perhaps created to provide professors with their bread and butter.

I love the idea of creative collaboration. I love the idea of exploring marriages, particularly ones that are in process for a long time.