Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.

There is no failure unless one stops. Not to work is to cease, tighten up, become nervous and therefore destructive of the creative process.

Failure doesn’t kill you… it increases your desire to make something happen.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

When it’s tough, will you give up or will you be relentless?

Losers quit when they fail. Winners fail until they succeed.

Never mistake activity for achievement.

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

“Nothing will work unless you do.”

“I’d rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.”

“Don’t give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.”

“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.” 

I look at someone's face and I see the work before I see the person. I personally don't think people look better when they do it; they just look different.

“Working with Woody [Allen] is like an emotional strip club without the cash.”

“The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people how good they are.”

I'm not into business at all.

“Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.”

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

“Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.”