Determinação, coragem e auto-confiança são fatores decisivos para o sucesso. Se estamos possuídos por uma inabalável determinação, conseguiremos superá-los. Independentemente das circunstâncias, devemos ser sempre humildes, recatados e despidos de orgulho. 

A persistência é o caminho do êxito. 

O sucesso nasce do querer, da determinação e persistência em se chegar a um objetivo. Mesmo não atingindo o alvo, quem busca e vence obstáculos, no mínimo fará coisas admiráveis. 

Agir, eis a inteligência verdadeira. Serei o que quiser. Mas tenho que querer o que for. O êxito está em ter êxito, e não em ter condições de êxito. Condições de palácio tem qualquer terra larga, mas onde estará o palácio se não o fizerem ali? 

A vitalidade é demonstrada não apenas pela persistência, mas pela capacidade de começar de novo. 

Só se pode alcançar um grande êxito quando nos mantemos fiéis a nós mesmos. 

Todo mundo é capaz de sentir os sofrimentos de um amigo. Ver com agrado os seus êxitos exige uma natureza muito delicada. 

Creia em si, mas não duvide sempre dos outros. 

As únicas grandes companhias que conseguirão ter êxito são aquelas que consideram os seus produtos obsoletos antes que os outros o façam. 

Talento é dom, é graça. E sucesso nada tem haver com sorte, mas com determinação e trabalho. 

Estar decidido, acima de qualquer coisa, é o segredo do êxito. 

Para obter êxito no mundo temos de parecer loucos mas sermos espertos. 

A disciplina é a mãe do êxito. 

Nenhum mentiroso tem uma memória suficientemente boa para ser um mentiroso de êxito. 

Para ter um negócio de sucesso, alguém, algum dia, teve que tomar uma atitude de coragem. 

Some women just skip having babies or adopt because they don't want to get fat or they haven't put in the time to find a partner. It's great to adopt, but a lot of adoptions are motivated by vanity and laziness.

It's time to debate images, especially when someone's going to prison for downloading them.

The only person who ever called me Paul was my father, so I always associate it with doing something wrong, you know. So, you know, occasionally, people will come up to me on the street and try to, you know, ingratiate themselves and call me Paul. I don't like it, actually.

My home life now is mostly women. They are better than us. They make me better.

That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more intense as the questions raised by the sociology of science became more prominent.

I could ask the Phillies to keep me on to add to my statistics, but my love for the game won't let me do that.

Democrats hate success.

I went to pick up my nephew from primary school, and one of the teachers there stopped me and said, 'My son listens to you.' That's quite an awkward thing.

The UFC didn't want me to fight there so what could I do? We were unable to make a deal. They offered unacceptable conditions.

I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.

Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.

Only nine States have been represented since my arrival 'till within three days. There are now Eleven States barely represented. This tardiness in the States or their Delegates, besides retarding the most important Business makes it exceeding fatiguing to those that do attend.

When you have a stroke, you must talk slowly to be understood, and I've discovered that when I talk slowly, people listen. They think I'm going to say something important!

I love 'Capote.' Huge fan of Philip Seymour Hoffman; if he's not my all-time favorite actor he's definitely in my top five. I just love him so much.

Marriage is not a competition. Marriage is completion of two souls.

I had my heart set on becoming an English teacher, but stumbled into acting after meeting a theatrical agent in my dad's restaurant in San Diego.

Practice is the best of all instructions.

When I was little, when I was a toddler or something, I would watch 'Jason's Lyrica' lot.

I've just always been interested in alter-naturalism and seeing if you can make real life interesting enough to be dramatic without enhancing it. Like, could you make a movie or write a play in which there's no compression of time, there's no enhanced event, it's just real life?

My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.

I've trained myself to find time to exercise relaxation of the body. I have these programs - I just listen to the instructions, and they're simple. Sometimes you just hold your hand tight and keep your breath - you hold it, hold it, feel all the tension, and then relax.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

I didn't have a dream of being a press secretary, I had a dream of being a playwright; I had a dream of being a novelist and a poet.

Slacker becomes slower if given additional time.