Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.

It's nice, being brought up with no money at all. It's just not how I measure success, so that makes it a bunch easier.

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.

Immigrants provide skills that we simply cannot afford to do without. They have contributed hugely to Britain's success.

Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.

The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.

I would love to be a guest on a talk show or a panel that shows women who have been on reality shows who've had success, to prove to audiences that you don't have to be a fool to become successful.

When making music I sink myself into the process as deeply as I can and forget all of the success.

I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don't experience either one of those, you're being deprived of something.

The writing of a melody is an emotional moment success doesn't make it easy.