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

People should not judge failed love affairs as failed experiences, but as part of the growth process. Something does not have to end well for it to have been one of the most valuable experiences of a lifetime.

NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example.

When I was 12, I snapped my arm in two. My wrist still has a funny bump because they didn't join it back together so great.

Prayer is the midwife of mercy, that helps to bring it forth.

My little dog, he did not get ill. It is so funny that people get ill on a boat and dogs do not.

The measure of the greatness of a society is found in the way it treats those most in need, those who have nothing apart from their poverty!

To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body.

After you do a play like 'The Normal Heart,' it's hard to find something you feel so passionate about.

Make a list of three of the happiest moments in your marriage. Spend a few minutes each day briefly reliving those moments in your mind. The results will amaze you.

There was a magic about the sea. People were drawn to it. People wanted to love by it, swim in it, play in it, look at it

If it doesn't feel right, don't do it. That is the lesson, and that lesson alone will save you a lot of grief.

We're throwing money down a rat hole drain of public education! We lead the world in public education spending. We lead the world in getting the least for it.

You're hot for two seconds, and you're struggling to get work again. If it were easy, I don't think that's a good place for an artist to work from.

I loved singing. But can you imagine my voice in an opera house?

It is always the start that requires the greatest effort.

Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.

Certainly when you know you put a lot of creative people together theres ego and tension and all that stuff comes into play. But on the flip side theres a lot of camaraderie and closeness.

The God of justice is with us, and our word, our work - our prayer for freedom will not, cannot be in vain.

Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both.

I'll name names, you know I won't hold back.

God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.

There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts.

I'm waiting for the day when my children cease to find my domestic propriety reassuring and actually find it annoying.

The beautifully composed imagery of '12 Years a Slave' underscores the savagery of its subject, which is an American South not of knights and ladies but obscene values and a grotesque pageantry, every gorgeous shot of the languid landscape radiating toxicity like a hyperlush blossom that's poison to the touch.