A shot of brandy can save your life, but a bottle of brandy can kill you.
I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.
I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
I never placed my head upon the pillow at night without reminding myself that my success might only be temporary.
Our cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.
I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. The part is greater than its role in the whole.
When we approached the Man of Action guys, we said, "We're not really interested in what's come before, except in the way that we want to make sure that it feels like it's Marvel's Avengers Assemble. From that point on, this is your cast. Go to it and tell great stories. "
Mankind are creatures of books, as well as of other circumstances; and such they eternally remain,--proofs, that the race is a noble and believing race, and capable of whatever books can stimulate.
There's a story everywhere. Being bored to death someplace is basically a funny proposition. What you have to watch out for is you don't write a boring story about a boring place.