Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence. They're willing to spend more time accomplishing a task and to persevere in the face of many difficult odds. There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it.

As a celebrity, you get a certain number of free passes. You're actually in a better position if you're a celebrity because people care.

There is a rule in sailing where the more maneuverable ship should give way to the less maneuverable craft. I think this is sometimes a good rule to follow in human relationships as well.

It is a man's world at the top, at the bottom, and in between. Men are in the catbird seat as far as income, opportunity, status, and power are concerned. This is the way it always has been and, as far as men are concerned, it is the way it always should be.

The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know; it judges us by what we have.

If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.

... no matter how great the differences are between men and women, the differences among members of the same sex are usually equally great if not greater.