Your self-confidence is directly connected to how much you feel you are making a difference in the world.

To earn more, you must learn more.

A goal without a plan is only a dream.

Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.

If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself.

Practice the philosophy of continuous improvement. Get a little bit better every single day.

There are no limits on what you can achieve with your life, except the limits you accept in your mind

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What's in it for me?

Whatever is expressed is impressed. Whatever you say to yourself, with emotion, generates thoughts, ideas and behaviors consistent with those words.

The glue that holds all relationships together ... is trust, and trust is based on integrity.

Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

It strikes me as unfortunate that this approach - affording the same dignity to and investing in the same quality for a poor child as you would for your own - is so often received as provocative.

The true test of independent judgement is being able to dislike someone who admires us.

I like playing music. I don't always like the feeling of people looking at me. I don't think I'm, like, a natural performer, but I'm getting better.

Color is the overpowering of black; white – the final victory over black.

Quiet through the grave go I; or else beneath the graves I lie

Panic leads to carelessness, and carelessness creates accidents.

I think it might be nice if there was a Cosimo de' Medici around today, offering commissions to the poor, but talented artists.

The problems with success, frankly, are infinitely preferable to the problems of failure.

We did every scene together, every day for four months, and it could have been a disaster, if we didn't get on, but we clicked straight away. Elijah Wood is just the nicest guy.