Lessons from the past create hope for the future and action in the present.

Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.

Winners hate losing more than changing while others hate changing more than losing.

The limiting factor on your success is not the size of the obstacles, but the size of your dream.

A big secret to life is when you learn that learning is just as entertaining as entertainment, but with long term benefits.

It's not the gifts you don't have that hold you back as much as the gifts you do have that you don't use.

Leaders begin with a different question than others. Replacing who can I blame with how am I responsible?

Doubts in your mind are a much greater roadblock to success than obstacles on the journey.

One person with commitment accomplishes more than a thousand with an opinion.

The problem with incompetence is its inability to recognize itself.

If you fill your head with positive thoughts, there won't be any room left for negative ones.

Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath.

Be a little less obsessed with how I live my life and a little more obsessed with how you live your own.

I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.

The movie industry places such importance on first-week numbers-which means what to people, I don't know. It's very strange. They hope to sell tons of records the first week, and then what?

You know, I've been playing with my hair color ever since I was nine.

Take not counsel of your fears

Never give advice to your children unless you have it in writing and notarized.

He is trying to decide which of two daydreams he will inhabit.

The fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost.

I'm one of the world's greatest pencil sharpeners.