Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people.

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret.

A decision is made with the brain. A commitment is made with the heart. Therefore, a commitment is much deeper and more binding than a decision

Success doesn't come to you; you must go to it. The trail is well traveled. If you want to walk it, you can.

You may have the loftiest goals, the highest ideals, the noblest dreams, but remember this nothing works unless you do.

If what you're working for really matters, you'll give it all you've got.

The process of growing and learning always involves risk.

Hatred is the most destructive force on earth. It does the most damage to those who harbor it.

Goal-setting illuminates the road to success just as runway lights illuminate the landing field for an incoming aircraft

For many people, change is more threatening than challenging. They see it as the destroyer of what is familiar and comfortable rather than the creator of what is new and exciting.

I think some people think I'm a smarty-pants. Some people think I'm intense, some people think I'm super-esoteric and nuts.

It's best if you can do things with a sense of humor and finesse.

Storehouses filled with merchandise will prove a better guarantee than arsenals bulging with ammunition.

I don't license everywhere. I take care of my name.

Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music.

I was very frightened when I turned forty. I suddenly thought I ought to wake up and be speaking with the voice of God.

I try to balance independent films with commercial films, and I've done a pretty good job of it over the years.

In the theater, as in life, we prefer a villain with a sense of humor to a hero without one.

Unless and until you have developed a heart inundated with compassion, do not sit on the seat of judgement.

It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.