Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.

Goal setting is the most important aspect of all improvement and personal development plans. It is the key to all fulfillment and achievement.

Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems.

Enthusiasm glows, radiates, permeates and immediately captures everyone's interest.

I knew what kind of actor I was going to be, and I looked for inspiration to people like Alec Guinness, Cyril Cusack, Timothy Spall and Jim Broadbent. I looked at them and thought, 'They play human beings as they really are.'

There are so many different kinds of motivation for investing or giving or parting with your money in whatever other way, and plain old financial return is obviously attractive. But people are not always rational and are not just looking for that.

We spend so much time closing ourselves to protect from scary things that we forget that when we do open to the world, inspiration can flow.

During the worst days of apartheid, we turned to the church for hope and courage as we fought a righteous struggle for a democratic, non-racial, non-sexist, just, and prosperous South Africa.