We are programmed; we are literally programmed genetically and then we are programmed environmentally and most people never break out of that programming.

No amount of reading or memorizing will make you successful in life. It is the understanding and application of wise thought which counts.

If you see it in your mind, you will hold it in your hand.

Faith and fear both demand you believe in something you cannot see. You choose.

Your outside world is a reflection of your inside world. What goes on in the inside, shows on the outside.

Richness is not about what you have. It is about who you are.

Your real purpose in life is to develop yourself. To successfully do this you must always be working toward a goal.

Being a winner is never an accident; winning comes about by design, determination and positive action.

A mentor is someone who sees more talent and ability within you, than you see in yourself, and helps bring it out of you.

By thinking about your goals every morning, many times during the day, and every night, you begin moving toward it, and bringing it toward you.

The only competition you will ever face is with your own ignorance.

If you have to chase, beg, or plot for love....It will run away at the next "best" offer.

The placebo cures 30% of patients - no matter what they have.

I'm lucky in that I have close friends and family and my agent to advise me.

No one saw the recession coming. The UK businesses were solid as a rock, but the issues we had were in Paris, New York and LA. For every pound we were making here we were losing two pounds abroad.

I'm looking out for myself, but I'm looking out for my dad, too.

I didn't come in here to argue with a woman with big hair

He will hear the rain before he feels it, a clicking on the dry grass, on the olive leaves.

I wrote 'Hereafter' quickly and without mapping it out too much or being too schematic. As an exercise, I think that was incredibly important.

Locked into loneliness were we two and looking at one another every evening we each saw the one we blamed for it.

The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community - by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.