I'm not a big guy for research. You've got to take a risk.

The best ideas make you want to say 'yes' and 'no' in the same breath.

You have to build yourself up a bit. You have to believe in yourself, because not that many other people will, you know?

I don't have a sugar daddy, I've never had a sugar daddy.

Phil Walden had complete faith in us, and I'll respect him forever for that. I think he sunk about $150,000 in us. He was close to bankruptcy a lot of the time, and Atlantic kept telling him we didn't have a chance.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Give all to love; Obey thy heart....

All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands. This can only be by his preferring truth to his past apprehension of truth; and his alert acceptance of it, from whatever quarter; the intrepid conviction that his laws, his relations to society, his Christianity, his world may at any time be superseded and decease.

And truly it demands something godlike in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity, and has ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster. High be his heart, faithful his will, clear his sight, that he may in good earnest be doctrine, society, law, to himself, that a simple purpose may be to him as strong as iron necessity is to others!

If the single man plants himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abides, this huge world will come around to him.