do you have at least one enemy? Good. Invite him or her over for coffee and ask for an honest opinion about your strengths and weaknesses. You will be forever grateful you did.

Achievements have greater appeal as failures, therefore they are systematically overrated. The media usually reportes only about stars, the unsuccessful are not mentioned. Therfore we end up a distorted perception of the real chances. It is useful to study the unsuccessful. #SurvivorshipBias

Behind each successful author hide 100 unsuccessful, behind each unsuccessful there are 100 that did not find a publisher, behind each of them there 100 who have not yet completed their manuscript .... But in the news only the stars get the whole attention.

Should you ever be sent to war, and you don’t agree with its goals, desert.

There are two kinds of forecasters: those who don’t know, and those who don’t know they don’t know

If 50 million people say something foolish, it is still foolish.

If you spend fifteen minutes in a shopping mall, you will pass more people than our ancestors saw during their entire lifetimes.

The more people do something, the more likely we are willing to follow. But this doesn´t make it automatically right, funny, good... Applause at the concert, laughing at shows, walk over a red traffic light

Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is eighty percent of being a successful hitter. The other twenty percent is just execution.

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

For effective communication use brevity. Jesus said Follow me. Now thats brief He could be brief because of all that he was that he didnt have to say.

It's so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early - is it just me, or does it not really feel like Ramadan?

Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality; if I could have pushed hard and attacked. But then I would have had a good chance of making a mistake.

Maybe I am too traditional, but men feel important when you ask for their help instead of thinking you can do it all on your own.

A writer doesn't write about just anything. He writes about things he has an affinity for.

The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the right to speak it.

Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have to time for the pitiful.

Everything youve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.

No matter what's happening in my life, I can always get lost in the romances of my characters.

We were using a hand-held camera to film the scene when Morse collapses. The camera wouldn't start. Three times they said action and it still wouldn't work. To this day, they still don't know what was wrong.

I think it is your job as an artist to be able to hear a song.

I'm foremost an actor. I feel embarrassed being compared to the guys who really work at it. I fake it, I make believe I know all about it, which is what you're supposed to do as an actor.

There's a victory in letting go of your expectations.

I should say, one of the things about being a widow or a widower, you really, really need a sense of humor, because everything's going to fall apart.

In our excessive involvement in the affairs of other countries, we are not only living off our assets and denying our own people the proper enjoyment of their resources; we are also denying the world the example of a free society enjoying its freedom to the fullest.

Although I have no plans to tweet, I am fascinated by developments on the Internet.

Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.

I like to win. If I lose, I'm not very happy.

My son, Todd Fisher- he has been such a wonderful son and brother.

Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place.

Being weird is just a side effect of being awesome

You have to catch the breaks.