Never settle for second when first is available

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Remember. Every day, some ordinary person does something extraordinary. Today, it's your turn.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.

Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that's the difference.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.

We aren't where we want to be; we aren't where we ought to be; but thank goodness we aren't where we used to be.

Let there be a wide breadth of possible ways to create.

I used to do theater in L.A., but it got to the point where everything was really showcase-y.

While followers idealize the real, leaders realize the ideal... They outshine with their power of love those whose only motivation is love of power.

Giving up my scotch? My Macallan 18? That was hard for me! Though now that doesn't even sound good, being pregnant. You crave other things. A big thing of water sounds great!

I wanted to write a song that's known to the world as a classic, stadium-rock anthem.

Like restless birds, the breath of coming rain Creeps, lilac-laden, up the village street

[Dario Argento] would yell at you in Italian, and I'd have no idea what he was saying. I'd just go, "Okay!". But it was a really great experience [filming Two Evil Eyes ].

Ninety percent of video game AI really is pretty damn bad. I think that's actually why it's so much fun to shoot things. Because the AI is so bad and the characters are so annoying.

I prefer to sail in a bad ship with a good captain rather than sail in a good ship with a bad captain.

We should keep [the Panama Canal]. After all, we stole it fair and square.