The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

I’ve had the opportunity to work with so many great directors. Different styles, as well, like Gus Van Sant. He just does the casting and the milieu and let’s you do your thing, quietly. Bertolucci, who can talk to you about your internal world in quite a creative way or just say, ‚Well, put your hand over here.‘

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

When I did have some success, it further emboldens you to be like, ‚No, I’m just going to write what I feel I should write.‘

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.

My dad was never married. He was kind of a rolling stone. But he was never disrespectful. At the same time, even though he had women in his life when I was a kid, there wasn’t any consistency.

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

I think that you can love people without it being the great love.

Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

I feel like I’m the kind of guy that would have kids before getting married. The first thing would be kids.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That’s always been the easy way. It’s not that it’s so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it’s just that there’s nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

I don’t know about you, but most of my exchanges with cashiers are not that meaningful.

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

Women don’t try to use me.

Basically, I’m one of the greatest producers ever. And I’m also one of the greatest DJs ever. And I’m also one of the best executives ever.

Football is a team game and none can survive or excel without the help of the other.

I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don’t know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

My drive is other people’s success.

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

Whoever the coach is, my job is to talk to him, understand him and be a better player under him and give my best.

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

Men weren’t always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

If you’re nice to me I’ll never write anything bad about you.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Well begun is half done.

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

Disagreement is something normal.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

One of the things I’ve told men over and over and over and over is if you’re being rejected by all the women that you approach, it’s not the women!

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it’s like giving them emotional oxygen.

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

I used to take my short stories to girls‘ homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?