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You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

If you make a fool of yourself, you can do it with dignity, without taking your pants down. And if you do take your pants down, you can still do it with dignity.

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.

In show business, if you make a mistake, you can do it over again.

Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'

You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.'

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.

Know how to live the time that is given you.

Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your own soul's doing.

It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.