The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.

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.

You were beautifully and wonderfully created with the skin of diamonds, so if you do break, you are still valuable.

Every act of communication is a miracle of translation.

I capture women. I break them down. And I rebuild them. And I am not a good man.

A prize fight is much like eating an ice-cream.Someone has to take a good licking!

Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.

I'm so busy during my everyday, when I go on vacation I need to pull the plug like they say, and to do nothing.

To me, the most interesting part of 'True Blood' is that the entire crux of the show is based on identity and finding your true identity.

Know that you will eventually have to leave everything behind; the writing will demand it of you.

Deciding what is to be sung and what is not to be sung is really what writing a musical is about.

Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.