It is a lack of commitment, not a lack of talent, that damns you to mediocrity.

Contrary to popular belief, Americans don't hate advertising.

A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again.But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.

The first step in exceeding your customer's expectations is to know those expectations.

String Theory describes energy and matter as being composed of tiny, wiggling strands of energy that look like strings. And the pitch of a string's vibration determines the nature of its effect.

Numerals are images of amounts. But the amounts they represent are real.

In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God's creation as music.

In marketing you must choose between boredom, shouting and seduction. Which do you want?

Preparation, mastery, can help you overcome your fear, but mastery alone is not enough. There has to be something you want that’s worth more to you than your fear.

You see a person when you look in the mirror that no one sees but you. Other people see a person when they look at you, but you're not that person, either.

Everyone is broken a little, I think, and the most broken of all are those who pretend they are not.

Adversity kills fearful people just by showing them its weapons. As to whether that weapon is fatal or fake, they don't care to know before they surrender!

My mum Margaret was a single parent, but though life was a bit of a struggle she gave me every encouragement.

Since I always go to work as Elvira, maybe a giant version of a cat. A black cat. I love cats and I think Elvira would look really good sitting on one.

Even though it's warm here in L.A., people still have to wear layers - at least until their plastic surgery heals.

Take the year a country first reaches 50% literacy and add one or two generations to allow the idea to sink in and, democracy, more or less automatically, appears.

When you're in my house you shall do as I do and believe who I believe in. So Bart butter your bacon.

I suppose playing an older man is a way of preparing myself for getting older.

It's amazing the fantasies your mind can put together.

They call it golf because all the other four-letter words were taken.

You should not open your mouth except to express gratitude for benefits you have received, and never to mention your discontent.