To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Meticulous planning will enable everything a man does to appear spontaneous.

There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The successful one has this over his rivals: he knows where he is going.

You cannot live on other people's promises, but if you promise others enough, you can live on your own.

You are beginning to see that any man to whom you can do favor is your friend, and that you can do a favor to almost anyone.

There is nothing wrong in using people. The success never uses people except to their advantage.

The successful always has a number of projects planned, to which he looks forward. Anyone of them could change the course of his life overnight.

There is nothing that puts a man more in your debt than that he owes you nothing.

At all times it is better to have a method.

A barrier is of ideas, not of things.

The failure wishes he could do things he could never do. He thinks little of what he can do.

A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.

We're in the business of melancholiaand we are married to our work.

I'm rarely rude except accidentally, and that doesn't really count...

Death is a force, not a man in a horse

If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.

For me, by far, the Olympics is the biggest sporting event in the world.

These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition.

It's not enough to picture their outward appearance. Give them a background and sphere of influence.

Man has always been half-monster, half-dreamer.

Paolo Maldini and John Terry are two of the toughest men I have met on the field.