When starting out, don't worry about not having enough money. Limited funds are a blessing, not a curse. Nothing encourages creative thinking in quite the same way.

If you're unhappy, you can't make anything.

I just enjoyed bar mitzvahs as a kid, and there was this company in the Detroit area where I grew up, and I think they recruited me as a party dancer - you know, like, you dance around and pass out glow sticks. I quickly rose in the ranks and, within a year, became an emcee, which was kind of unheard of.

Every study of high achieving men and women proves that greatness in life is only possible when you become outstanding at your chosen field.

When I started writing after my career as an actor, I knew that that other life in the film industry would be pulled into my writing life and that people would see me not as an author but as an actor starting to write.

I am neither frustrated nor planning anything other than being the best Secretary of State I could be.

I definitely wanted the second record to be a much more grandiose thing. I wanted to push myself and make a big statement.

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

The circumstances of the world are continually changing, and the opinions of men change also; and as government is for the living, and not for the dead, it is the living only that has any right in it.

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.

Let us show ourselves godly by being more spiritual in duty. It is not the quantity, but the quality which God is concerned with. It is not how much we do but how well.

There are millions of people around the world that want to be artists and want to make stuff to entertain people, but nobody cares.