More than any other factor, it is the people we have to deal with that determine the quality of our work lives.

Believe passionately in what you do, and never knowingly compromise your standards and values. Act like a true professional, aiming for true excellence, and the money will follow.

Professional is not a label you give yourself - it's a description you hope others will apply to you.

What you do with your billable time determines your current income, but what you do with your non-billable time determines your future.

Focus on being the best you can at what you want to do.

I will accept your influence, guidance and direction if (and only if) I believe that you and I share similar goals.

Your task as a leader is to help others to succeed, not to strive only for your own success. If I don't trust your motives, nothing else will matter -because my primary concern is your integrity.

If your clients aren't actively telling their friends about you, maybe your work isn't as great as you think it is.

Success comes from doing what you enjoy. If you don't enjoy it, how can it be called success?

Left untended, knowledge and skill, like all assets, depreciate in value surprisingly quickly.

I will not accept your guidance and critique unless you are supportive and nurturing. On the other hand, you need to be continually demanding.

I'm a writer. I write checks. Mostly fiction.

And so the spirits just gazed at us with eyes milked dry of care.

What is the purpose of memory? Is it a trick to make sure we don't forget who we are by reminding us of who we were?

...one emotion after another crept into her face like objects into a slowly developing picture.

I don’t discount a magical hand of fate. I am an actor, after all, and a Shakespearian, no less. But it can’t be the ruling force of your life. You have to be the driver.

No one wants to learn from mistakes, but we cannot learn enough from successes to go beyond the state of the art.

I'm talking ideal, I live in heaven, and my stomach is bottomless.

Life is like a beach chair when you can afford one

You know the movie "Rashomon" from [Takeshi] Kurosawa, when all the people in the forest see something different? Each performance was like that.