I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don't appreciate that.

We're constantly striving for success fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

Every success story has a parent who says 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says when you're acting the fool 'you know I worry about you sometimes.'

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

If at first you don't succeed try try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.

The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb and he to whom such books are shut flounders about in outer darkness.

The thing with me. I can't stick musicians. I've thought about this. I can't stand them and being stuck in a studio with them I think that's my strength I can hear what they can't.

One of the things that's beautiful about New Orleans is how culturally rich we are and how well we have worked together. People call us a gumbo. It's really important that we get focused on the very simple notion that diversity is a strength it's not a weakness.