You can do amazing things if you have strong faith, deep desire, and just hang in there.

Fire is harmful unless it’s controlled. Then it provides warmth, enables us to cook, and sets a romantic tone when contained in a fireplace.

Your response to rejection is the same way. When your response is unbridled, it can devastate. When your response is controlled, it can be used to motivate you, stir you into action, and bring you closer to your goals.

Be careful not to compare how insecure you feel about yourself on the inside with how polished others may look on the outside.

The more perfect another person appears to be, the more likely they feel inadequate.

It ought to be with a sense of relief, not a sense of compromise and reluctance, that we come to the conclusion that we are not and never will be perfect.

Your own life is your competition.

Rejection causes pain but like physical pain, it goes away.

By understanding that all rejection is beneficial, you’ll be able to open-mindedly examine each rejection rather than allowing negativity to creep in and take over.

Positive thinking people use rejection to motivate them.

Where there is no vision, the people perish. Hang on to your vision.

We conquer by continuing.

Be like a postage stamp - stick to one thing until you get there.

Submitting to fear and avoiding rejection takes away our freedom to dream.

When we feed ourselves full of possibilities, we gain courage.

When you continue exploring your possibilities, great ideas emerge that can benefit you and others in a big way.

Every lasting success involves overcoming rejection.

You can’t make the decision for someone else to reject you. Take the risk!

Their pride often got the best of them. Rather than face the fear of embarrassment, they would simply reject the idea.

I didn't plan on going into show business. Show business picked me. And it's been fun. One of the best things about being in show business is people think they know me, and they feel like they grew up with me.

What conflicting ideas that we love and embrace these women, and entrust them to raise our children and to feed us and to bathe us, but we keep something as silly as a bathroom separate.

I do take pride in saying that in spite of being in public life for so long, there is not a single case against me, not even for wrongly parking a scooter or driving on the wrong side.

My purpose is to entertain and please myself. I feel that if I am entertained, then there will be enough other readers who will be entertained, too.

I met my wife in Oxford, fell in love with her, and followed her to New York. I was an illegal there for the first few years, until we got married, so I ended up doing lots of interesting jobs, some for a few days, some for a few months.

If I was born 400 years ago instead of now, I wouldn't have the life I have. There were freak shows, and there was horrible discrimination.

I'm not big on sequels; I've done them, but I like doing little things that have their own timelessness to them, classic type things, and then you go onto something new.

What does old look like? Sometimes I am wrinkled, sometimes not.

Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.

Telemarketers tell me I sound like Bill Cosby.

I will aim to restore the Japan-U.S. alliance and Japan's strong diplomatic capabilities. Japan can't pursue a strong foreign policy without strengthening its alliance with the United States.

I'm not an actor who is trying to be a movie star.

We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.

If you come to Georgia, you can open up a company in a day. You yourself can come tomorrow and establish a company in a day, and you're not halted by paperwork.

I'm a very hard-line, angry atheist. Yet I am fascinated by the concept of devotion.

I hate wearing makeup because I am just too lazy to take it off at night.

Events are not a matter of chance.

Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.

Style is made up of whatever an author can't avoid doing.

Whenever the party-girl tag gets attached to my name, it makes me want to snort with derision.

Without accepting the fact that everything changes we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately although it is true it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience we suffer.

One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons.

Trust me, I'm going to find out where the money has gone and how it has been spent, and see if we can't get it down there quicker to let that rebuilding start.