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.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation hard work and learning from failure.

If there's one thing I really want for my birthday that is for the mining company not to mine my daddy's reserve.

There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday.

I'll never forget my 24th birthday when my tooth got punched out. And for a second I was like it would be really hilarious if I sold it on eBay. But I can't that's just too creepy. I don't think I can go there.

We were probably the last people in the country to get a VCR and we didn't have cable. There wasn't any admiration of glamour no 'I want to look like them or have that lifestyle' because everyone in my town had the same lifestyle. So I didn't think 'Ooh a movie star's birthday!' I just thought 'What?'

One I built when I was a kid and it was a real miniature of Disneyland. I fell in love with the park when I went there with my parents on my 12th birthday.

I went to a rare live Van Dyke show and met him there. And then he came to a show of mine and we spoke back stage. The third time was at Brian Wilson's birthday party.

I suddenly realized how much I loved her when we attended Alfred Hitchcock's 75th birthday party last August. There was something magical about that night and it made me see how much she really meant to me.

I was fired at the pinnacle of my career on my 39th birthday. And in the year that followed I learned that there are many psychological phases of being 'let go.'

Every day every birthday candle I blow out every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well every time my daughter says 'Let's make a wish on a star ' there's one thing I wish for: wisdom.

It's odd the things that people remember. Parents will arrange a birthday party certain it will stick in your mind forever. You'll have a nice time then two years later you'll be like 'There was a pony there? Really? And a clown with one leg?'

I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent and there were 150 people waiting for me all wearing masks of my face.

There is still no cure for the common birthday.

There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents and only one for birthday presents you know.

The more you praise and celebrate your life the more there is in life to celebrate.

Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there and you can't do it by loafing around.

I don't think there's anybody in America who thinks my personality is best suited to being Number Two.

There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there.

There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads if whatever he may have to preach he shows himself best able to perform.

Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them.

Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.

At some point I would like to write a book and other things but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.