When we have a brilliant idea, instead of making others think it is ours, why not let them cook and stir the idea themselves.

If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

People say I'm cocky, but am I supposed to sit here and be insecure and not know where my future's going or not realize that moviemaking is the greatest thing to happen to me?

Improving yourself is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others.

In talking with people, don't begin by discussing the things on which you differ. Begin by emphasizing - and keep on emphasizing - the things on which you agree. Keep emphasizing, if possible, that you are both striving for the same end and that your only difference is one of method and not of purpose.

Once I did bad and that I heard ever. Twice I did good, but that I heard never.