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However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

Commitment is a big part of what I am and what I believe. How committed are you to winning? How committed are you to being a good friend? To being trustworthy? To being successful? How committed are you to being a good father, a good teammate, a good role model? There's that moment every morning when you look in the mirror: Are you committed, or are you not?

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.

The deal is that you can do it, you don't really owe me anything, but at the end of it, I own the film. Then I can actually go out and reprint or not reprint if it I want.

People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control.

I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade... And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

You come to a point in your life when you really don't care what people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.