Collecting has always been in my blood.

The real secret of success is enthusiasm.

The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers.

Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it.

The real secret of success is enthusiasm. Yes, more than enthusiasm, I would say excitement. I like to see men get excited. When they get excited they make a success of their lives.

To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.

I like to build things, I like to do things. I am having a lot of fun .

I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.

Well, some people create their own opportunities; others go where opportunities are the greatest; others fail to recognize opportunity when they are face to face with it.

It devolves upon the United States to help motorize the world.

I am sorry about the person who is not truly excited about his job. He will not only never truly be happy there, but he won't achieve anything great.

Can we just be grateful for beauty & joy, fascination & tolerance, humour & love, nature & grace, and simply release any anger and pains?

We don't have butlers. Obviously we have people who look after the houses, but I try not to run things formally.

All skills are learnable.

Tony Black is the Tom Waits of Crime Fiction, yes, that good.

The perfect man? A poet on a motorcycle.

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

What was most important was the knowledge [aspect] of the fight. I learned this early on and just told myself to "upgrade my mind." That's just what I wanted to do my whole life.

Poetic power is great, strong as a primitive instinct; it has its own unyielding rhythms in itself and breaks out as out of mountains.

The gods are on the side of the stronger.

What I do know is sometimes we love the wrong people and sometimes we marry them.