Persistence is nothing more than Concentrated Effort mixed with Determination and Faith.

A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life: not on what you don't want.

A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done.

There are two types of people: those that are going somewhere and those that ain't.

An event of failure has absolutely nothing to do with the possibility of one's future success.

For an inheritance to be really great the hand of the defunct must not be seen.

I love New York. I've always loved New York.

It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe...

All children find chaos congenial. Any unruliness, even by nature, advances the child's program of subverting authority.

Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it.

The most important thing is to continue to be yourself. The day after the Oscars, you have to get on with your life. To be honest and true to yourself.

I've been slagged off completely by the art world and I don't know whether fancy being slagged off by the literary world as well. It's just too much.