There is this idea that you have to play heroines or women who succeed.
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
You always succeed in producing a result.
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
Is it possible to succeed without any act of betrayal?
I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel sorry for my psychopaths, because I do.
I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed.
To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure paths must be followed.
No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.
Now that our troops are mired in a dangerous effort to defeat the insurgency and are also trying to help rebuild the country, Americans of all political persuasions simply want the United States to succeed and our troops to be as safe as possible.
This 21st century economy holds great promise for our people. But unless we give all Americans the skills they need to succeed, countries like India and China will take good-paying jobs that should be ours.