The use of talent is far more important than the possession of talent.

There are thousands of causes for stress, and one antidote to stress is self-expression. That's what happens to me every day. My thoughts get off my chest, down my sleeves and onto my pad.

I want everybody to be smart. As smart as they can be. A world of ignorant people is too dangerous to live in.

As is the case with all original creators, Charles Chaplin's working life was an amalgam of arrogant self-confidence and deflating self-doubt.

The best part of one's life is the working part, the creative part. Believe me, I love to succeed... However, the real spiritual and emotional excitement is in the doing.

Amateur feed on hope. Professionals work.

In a professional once engaged, the performance of the job comes first.

Amateurs hope. Professional work.

Whenever I'm asked what college I attended I'm tempted to reply Thornton Wilder'.

In a professional once engaged the performance of the job comes first.

Amateurs hope. Professionals work.

If you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

I can watch a movie about a person that can make me feel depressed or remind me of something else, and then later on I'll get an idea for a song.

Our father taught us such a work ethic that if there's something worth doing, it's worth doing well.

In practical life the wisest and soundest people avoid speculation.

Some people you can afford to spend a few minutes with, but not a few hours.

Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.

Simple statements are to be prized more highly than less simple ones because they tell us more; because their empirical content is greater; and because they are better testable.

To be loved means to be recognized as existing.

God always works with workers and moves with movers, but He does not sit with sitters.

The possibility seems to be that what we call styles, or what we call motifs, are actually categories in the unconscious.