It's better to build boys than mend men.

How do you identify someone who needs encouragement? That person is breathing.

Sometimes success is disguised as hard work.

Food is Essential to life, therefore make it good.

Each person's destiny is not a matter of chance; it's a matter of choice. It's determined by what we say, what we do, and whom we trust.

We must motivate ourselves to do our very best, and by our example lead others to do their best as well.

If you're excited about what you're doing, it's a lot more likely that your employees will also be excited. People want to work for a person, not a company. It's about relationships.

Learn to love your work and you'll never have to 'work' again.

You have to be very careful about what you say. More importantly, you have to be very careful about what you do. You never know how or when you influence people – especially children.

How do you know if someone needs encouragement? If they are breathing!

The one thing I take more joy in than anything else in the world is seeing young people develop

For me, every book is an individual with its own identity and has to be nurtured and taken care of, so that it may survive for a longer period.

Doubt you’d find anyone as dashingly charming as me

The Liberty of the press consists in the right to publish with impunity truth with good motives for justifiable ends, though reflecting on government, magistracy, or individuals.

That ability to see the right choice, but not until several hours have passed since making the wrong one? That's what makes a person a dumbass, folks.

You have to be on TV a surprisingly long time before you're stopped on the street. Then, when you are, you get a lot of, 'Hey, you're great! What's your name again?'

What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire - the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery.

The world is God's workshop for making men in.

I don't know where the line is. I don't know how much of myself is in Walter. There's got to be a bit of him there.

Goodness, what beautiful diamonds!' 'Goodness had nothing to do with it'.

I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.