I turn now not to the Bible but to Wallace Stevens.

When the need to succeed is as bad as the need to breathe, then you’ll be successful.

I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

There is no substitute for Hard Work.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

The enemies of a people are those who keep them in ignorance.

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.

Remember what I used to tel you when you were a little girl? ‘A fool and her money soon part.’ Current-day translation? Stop pissing away your assets at Bloomingdale’s.

When you're busy doing your own stuff it's like running a race. You try not to look over your shoulder to see who else is in the race, you do the best you can.

I'm an old curmudgeon and I know it.

What was it like...to have someone who knew you would always return and who welcomed you with open arms?

I am learning how to be angry and sad and lonely and joyful and excited and afraid and happy.

One of life's most over-valued pleasures is sexual intercourse; of one of life's least appreciated pleasures in defecation.

Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.

I think animals should be free. There's so much other food out there that doesn't have to involve you in that cycle of pain and death.