The best compliment someone can give me is stealing my idea and making it their own.

True happiness comes when you give your best in something beyond yourself.

Hope is a gift we give ourselves in our darkest despair.

A single thread of hope is stronger than all the chains that bind you.

I have come face to face with many truths from the past that had to be revised with present knowledge.

Failure, loss and defeat are just mile markers on the road to success.

There is no greater success as when you turn your enemy into your ally.

Success comes not from having certainty, but being able to live with uncertainty.

Success involves avoiding the lure of making excuses.

Success involves going to where others believe is too far.

An attitude of gratitude increases abundance and diminishes fear.

That which we say and do, if its effects last not beyond our lives, is unimportant.

One's happiness is very largely a question of state of mind rather than the world you are looking at.

France will insist on the need for updated and responsive institutions.

What is private and what is discussed behind closed doors, you do not have to be instructed at the age of fifty or sixty or forty or whatever to not talk about it outside.

For some unknown reason, success usually occurs in private, while failure occurs in full view.

If there were any people who were my role models I would just say it was my family's influence and the family and the kids around me.

At some point, you've got to realize, you're either a leading man or you're not.

The artist invites the spectator to take a journey within the realm of the canvas... Without taking the journey, the spectator has really missed the essential experience of the picture.

If you're a rich guy, the best thing you can do is demand tax increases on the rich. That way the poor guy will leave you alone. The middle class and the poor will leave you alone.

You are far less likely to soil your pants and cry for your mother if you’re prepared to defend yourself.