Ask yourself: What forms the decisions you make? What is it that gnaws at you? What are your crucible moments?

If you keep your nose to the grindstone, you don't have any nose.

Nobody remembers who was the richest toga salesman in Rome.

Everything has a lifecycle. You have to believe it’s going to change.

Growing up, I knew you were supposed to have a profession - and something better than being a shopkeeper, which is what my parents were.

Society can't wait. It's sad there are so many entrepreneurs, business successes and venture capitalists who give no thought to society.

I don't think most analysts understand that whether I work a 70-hour week or an 80-hour week, I take my head with me when I go home.

If you start painting yourself into a corner, life starts shutting down. There is always hopefully a next.

Sometimes I wish I lived more in the day, but I'm happier thinking about tomorrow or the day after. The way I see it, there's always a new or next thing.

I am really proud of the development of the people on my team as they grow in purpose; they like what they see in the mirror.

In the '70s and '80s, the mentality of America was that everything was disposable. The notion of quality wasn't important.

Memory is the 'filling cabinet' of the brain wherein is stored all thought impulses, all conscious experiences, and all sensations which reach the brain through the five physical senses.

Every moment thou waitest does but increase thy misery

Walk in the right path.

I thought you were all-seeing.” All-knowing, not all-seeing!” he snapped. “I’m a God, not Santa Claus!

I don't think it's time yet to eliminate cash, but I propose having a less-cash society, not a cashless one.

Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Everywhere, giant finned cars nose forward like fish; a savage servility slides by on grease.

Ive always had a fascination for animals. I loved watching them, and even then I thought of them as beings rather than pets. I call it a birth affect!

I want to paint what I feel, and feel what I paint.

I was offered 'I'm A Celebrity...' for a lot of money, but I don't like the level of degradation.