My formula for success is rise early work late and strike oil.

Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.

Whenever I hear 'It can't be done ' I know I'm close to success.

We were called The Toilets originally - we were flushed with success.

Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

The key to sitcom success is miserable people. If you see a happy couple it's just gone like when Sam and Diane got together on Cheers.

I don't think success has changed us as people at all. We are the same lunatics that we were when this band first got going. We never see ourselves as being on a higher level than our fans.

My literary success meant nothing to me.

Look if you ask a child 'Would you rather have a fulfilled mother or a stay-at-home Sylvia Plath ' they'll pick Sylvia Plath every time. But I think it's really important that children don't feel their parents' emotional lives depend on their success.