Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Leaders at the highest levels of our government are undertaking a deliberate and systematic effort to redefine our government our economy and our country.

Such a faith would be fatal to my reason to my liberty and even to the success of my undertakings it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave an instrument of the will and interests of others.

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands new undertakings and new forms of expression.

My talent is such that no undertaking however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage.

It's a difficult undertaking. I've been married for four years and I see this movie as a cautionary tale about people who've gone deeply out of communication.

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family friends and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone uninterrupted and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.