Be king in your dreams. Make your vow that you will reach that position, with untarnished reputation, and make no other vow to distract your attention.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

You are what you think. So just think big, believe big, act big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, love big and live big.

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.

Young man, make your name worth something.

No man becomes rich unless he enriches others.

Take away my people, but leave my factories and soon grass will grow on the factory floors......Take away my factories, but leave my people and soon we will have a new and better factory.

Wealth is not to feed our egos but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves.

The greatest astonishment of my life was the discovery that the man who does the work is not the man who gets rich

The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do.

The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.

We were strange in loveher and I too wild to last too rare to die.

Nihilism is a subject for comedy.

I love to have my hair down I love to have my hair full... there's something romantic about it.

The more you try to simplify things the more you complicate them. You create rules, build walls, push people away, lie to yourself and ignore true feelings. That is not simplifying things.

When people hit on feeling a certain melancholy or elation, it's a really exciting moment. I think making that connection is the goal, and what makes something great.

One of the reasons writers are never satisfied with their work is because they're always striving to do better.

Spinning yarns is a protection against the nuttiness... the greed, the hate all around us.

Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs.

I'm a farmer's market girl, so if you go and get beautiful, fresh fruit, that's local, and it hasn't been frozen yet, it's pretty fantastic.

I was raised to believe that religion is a beautiful thing, but it's fiction.