My success has allowed me to strike out with a higher class of women.

That’s one of the nice things about writing, or any art; if the thing’s real, it just lives. All the attendant hoopla about it, the success over it or the critical rejection—none of that really matters. In the end, the thing will survive or not on its own merits. Not that immortality via art is any big deal. Truffaut died, and we all felt awful about it, and there were the appropriate eulogies, and his wonderful films live on. But it’s not much help to Truffaut.

Moving into an unoccupied village when there's no opposition, I don't call that a military victory.

When I fish, I stop thinking about anything else. But truth be told, if you want to declare victories, I can tell you the fish have won a lot more than I have. It's interesting that something with a brain the size of a fish's can outsmart us humans, who think we are el supremo.

I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.

“Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.” 

“Perhaps that's the first Survival Lesson we need to remember if we are to keep going: serious opposition is a measure of success. Women have been trained to measure our effectiveness in love and approval, not in conflict and resistance.” 

“It's important for someone who could play the game - and win - to say: 'the game isn't worth shit.” 

"Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds."

 Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable. 

"Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable."

“Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.”

“The world will very soon be divided, unless I am mistaken, into those who still go on explaining our success, and those somewhat more intelligent who are trying to explain our failure.”

A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It's a theatrica! event.

I always knew I was a star, and now the rest of the world seems to agree with me.

I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend.

The reason we're successful, darling? My overall charisma, of course

CP is a struggle, but it's also been quite the tool for me to find success and deliver a message. It's something about me that's unique, so it'll open a few doors as well as keep a few closed. If you have the other tools that you develop as an individual, talents, things like that, you can harness this to do positive things in the world.

The one who has conquered himself is a far greater hero than he who has defeated a thousand times a thousand men.

Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.

 I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon

“Success always leaves footprints.” 

“I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.”