Barack Obama doesn't believe in free enterprise. He's never going to admit it. For instance he's never going to come straight out and say 'If you own a business you didn't build it.' Alright maybe he will.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.

What we actually learn from any given set of circumstances determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.

Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.

My 'fear' is my substance and probably the best part of me.

Under any circumstance simply do your best and you will avoid self-judgment self-abuse and regret.

Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance simply do your best and you will avoid self-judgment self-abuse and regret.

Achievement is not always success while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

A failure is not always a mistake it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace making the best of circumstances.

Far from creating a new formalism what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty but also form in which intuitions or ideas or conjectures have taken visible substance.

My main aim has always been to do good quality films with roles that have some substance. With Power and Beauty there were loads of things that I liked about the movie which made me opt for it.

Oh! this opponent this collaborator against your will whose notion of beauty always differs from yours and whose means are often too limited for active assistance to your intentions!

Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.

The ideal and the beautiful are identical the ideal corresponds to the idea and beauty to form hence idea and substance are cognate.

For every moment of triumph for every instance of beauty many souls must be trampled.

I perfectly understood President Obama's attitude throughout the French presidential campaign. He had no reason to distance himself from Nicolas Sarkozy. It's the basic solidarity that leaders who worked together owe to each other.

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance I suppose or it should be.

Attitude is more important than the past than education than money than circumstances than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance giftedness or skill.

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

Happiness is an attitude of mind born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances to choose one's own way.

I'm very much into the costuming of any character that I portray and it's one of the great things about making movies is it's a collaborative art form so you get all these artists who are looking specifically about for this instance your character's costume and what that might tell about your character.

Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries for instance to Africa but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa.