The ability to help the people around me self-actualize their goals underlines the single aspect of my abilities and the label that I value most—teacher.

Concentrate on what will produce results rather than on the results, the process rather than the prize.

Your path and purpose will become crystal clear when you begin to trust your vision.

Good talent with bad attitude equals bad talent.

Champions behave like champions before they are champions

Invest in great relationships, they will pay a lifetime of dividends.

I've observed that if individuals who prevail in a highly competitive environment have any one thing in common besides success, it is failure—and their ability to overcome it.

Failure is part of success, an integral part. Everybody gets knocked down. Knowing it will happen and what you must do when it does is the first step back.

Many people erroneously think they have only one chance to succeed, and if they miss that chance, they are doomed to failure. In fact, most people have several opportunities to succeed.

The minute you step away from the negative people in your life you will instantly see the beauty in your horizon.

Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.

I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art.

The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home, like all the men who now live with mermaids at the bottom of the sea.Or the people who found Atlantis.

Logic is something the mind has created to conceal its timidity, a hocus-pocus designed to give formal validity to conclusions we are willing to accept if everybody else in our set will too.

We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them.

The only kind of movement you could make in the Navy was to be a platoon leader or one of those kinds of things as you got more senior in your Navy career.

I'm still around artists. I don't have anymore wall space. And I don't have the money to collect anymore, the prices are outrageous.

The simile has to match the tone of its surroundings and has to be like a little joke. Writing a simile that isn't funny on some level is quite hard.

A healthy newborn has been delivered in a more or less satisfying fashion. The baby is feeding well, has short nails and a clean bottom, and has not drowned. What now?

I hereby resolve to kill every vampire in America.

Paris Hilton, it turns out, is related to fellow celebrity jailbirds Zsa Zsa Gabor and G. Gordon Liddy.