Stop teaching students that they are the best and the brightest.

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.

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

Never close your hands in the face of evil fate

An apology given just to appease one's conscience is self-serving and better left unspoken!

Many writers were better before they became famous.

I hope to direct a few more films before I leave the planet, so I hope I can find the material.

The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry

First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.

Bad policies, stupid policies, gutless policies have real consequences.

Writing is the one art form that really should allow you to hang yourself.

I urge you to choose companions well and cherish those friends who lift you and make you better in their presence. And be such friends to one another.

Sometimes I wish that I could go into a time machine right now and just look at my self and say, 'Calm down. Things are gonna be fine. Things are gonna be all great. Just relax.