When I have a mission, it gives me something to focus on.

Life is too fragile and valuable to be spent doing something you hate.

You can run a business any way you like, but you'll run it better if you build it around your strengths.

You have to make your own chances.

To be successful you must recognise your weaknesses and employ people with complementary skills.

It is impossible to think big without thinking complex.

Sometimes in life, it has to be enough to be proud of yourself, even if no one else notices.

Why wouldn't you want to buy something that made you money?

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control the way you think about all the events. You always have a choice. You can choose to face them with a positive mental attitude.

The war consciousness is purposely cultivated to guide the male away from the natural, healthy balances between masculine and feminine energies, and toward more unbalanced and detached psychologies.

Opposition inflames the enthusiast never converts him.

When I give speeches at college, I don't tell stories, I talk about what it is to live your dreams and take the path less traveled.

In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.

I heard a white writer say, 'Oh, I'd never put black people in my writing, I'm afraid I would offend someone by doing it wrong.' I can't bear that!

A lot of a movie is locations, frankly.

The reality is you have to do your work and maybe you don't know everything. Maybe I don't know what the hell I'm doing! But most of the time you can't even admit that, though.

You don't make any money when you're my age. The stars get it all. That's a lie, actually.

The right to use a thing comprehends a right to the means necessary to its use, and without which it would be useless.