"The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way."

"Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have it depends solely on what you think."

"If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done."

"Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind."

"I was always raised on cowboy films, and then when I could start making choices about the movies I wanted to watch I found myself wanting to watch gangster films which were slightly more sophisticated than the baseline stuff that was in westerns."

"The simplest truths often reveal that the only true currency in life is time well spent."

"Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain."

"Vision without execution is fantasy; execution without vision is chaos. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds — an essential principle for the reflective life."