“Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.”

“You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.”

“It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.”

“Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.”

“Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.”

“Don't aim for success if you want it just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.”

“Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.”

“Winning in Afghanistan is having a country that is stable enough to ensure that there is no safe haven for Al Qaida or for a militant Taliban that welcomes Al Qaida. That's really the measure of success for the United States.”

“There is little success where there is little laughter.”