I don't believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money.

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

If you can't stand the heat, don't go to Cancun in the summer.

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.

Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... But not everyone must prove they are a citizen.

And now, any of those who refuse, or are unable, to prove they are citizens will receive free insurance paid for by those who are forced to buy insurance because they are citizens.

Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

What's a good investment? Go home from work early and spend the afternoon throwing a ball around with your son.

The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.

I think that the Occupy movement is, in one sense, the public saying that they should be the ones to decide who's too big to fail.

I just go and play hard. That's who I am.

One of my foolish qualities is to jump boldly, and then think about it later.

There's no such thing as business ethics; there's just ethics. And ethics makes no concessions for the real or imagined necessities of making a profit.

Is there a movie I think I should have won the Oscar for? Yeah. All of them.

My whole staff love to laugh and count the money. On the couch, hands in our pants like Al Bundy.

More than a rejection or dissolution of the past, avant-garde originality is conceived as a literal origin, a beginning from ground zero, a birth.

I use a whole lot of half-assed semicolons; there was one of them just now; that was a semicolon after 'semicolons,' and another one after 'now.

To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them.