"If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance."

"One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today."

"Really important goals are accomplished by people who will keep trying even when there seems to be no hope."

"The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger (praise) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies"

"Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date."

"Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The “sure thing” boat never gets far from shore."

"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours"

"You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime."

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

"Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto."

"The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most."

"Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare."

"There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave."

"Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think."

"When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion."

"There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it."

"Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude"

"Flattery is from the teeth out. Sincere appreciation is from the heart out."

"In the story shoes are just a metaphor for what these girls go through...the grass is always greener and everyone always wants to be in somebody else's shoes; they don't want to be in their own."

"I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress."

"Every casting director I've met is a woman."

"I don't want to go to work and get into bed with someone else, not even Tom Cruise. It's not like I enjoy it."

"Intimacy starts with a relationship with yourself, an understanding of who you are."

"I've never been a fluffy sort of woman."

"It's important to be active in the causes that are important to you... That's how we make changes in this world."

"You don't want to be photographed? You don't want to be known? Then you don't need to be out there peddling movies."

"I love Shirley Maclaine, love that woman."

"I make films for myself, first and foremost, just because it is such a personal experience, and it's something I really have to want to do and feel connected to."

"Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed."

"You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing."

"When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade."

"Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience."

"We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do."

"There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it."

"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving."

"Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said."

"First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst."

"People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing."

"The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure."

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."

"If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy."

"You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you."

"Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible"

"Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career."

"Naturalness is the easiest thing in the world to acquire, if you will forget yourself-forget about the impression you are trying to make."

"Fear not those who argue but those who dodge."

"The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation"

"The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it."

"Picking projects, it's always director first and then script. Those two things are pretty much head-to-head."

"I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life."