Michael Korda

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.

In the final analysis, it is your decision to make, but it doesn't move as fast as I'd like it to move.

To a person sitting quietly at home, Rocky Mountain traveling, like Rocky Mountain scenery, must seem very monotonous; but not so to me, to whom the pure, dry mountain air is the elixir of life.

I don't think they're going to pay me to play Mufasa.