The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him is aristocracy.
Take a deep breath, relax and imagine yourself exactly as you wish to be.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What's in it for me?
It doesn't matter where you came from, it doesn't matter how poor you are, it doesn't matter where your family was. It all doesn't matter. You can achieve anything if you have really clear goals and if you work really hard to learn what you need to learn.
The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers.
Luck is predictable; the harder you work, the luckier you get.
A person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip a genius in society, if that person has focused goals.
As a producer, you can't break up wyour own project. It's like sleeping with someone that you don't like. . . Forever.
Maybe at the same time as I'm more confident today, I'm also more humble.
No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shudder ran through me and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary thing that was happening to me.
Our institutions were not devised to bring about uniformity of opinion; if they had we might well abandon hope. It is important to remember, as has well been said, 'the essential characteristic of true liberty is that under its shelter many different types of life and character and opinion and belief can develop unmolested and unobstructed. '