I was 52 years old. I had diabetes and incipient arthritis. I had lost my gall bladder and most of my thyroid gland in earlier campaigns, but I was convinced the best was ahead of me.

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.

Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.

The definition of salesmanship is the gentle art of letting the customer have it your way.

When you're green, your growing. When you're ripe, you rot.

The more I help others to succeed, the more I succeed.

It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun.

That's the name of the game ... pleasing the customer. If we ever lose sight of that fact, we've lost the ball game.

The key to success is being in the right place at the right time, recognizing that you are there, and taking action!

To be successful, you must be daring, be first and be different.

Love is the only criminal who, after stealing your heart, convinces you to celebrate her.

I read a quote the other day that said comparison is a brutal assault upon one's self. And what happens is that you're saying that you're not good enough.

It is impossible to say all that we think, even to our truest Friend. We may bid him farewell forever sooner than complain, for our complaint is too well grounded to be uttered.

The necessity of labor and conversation with many men and things to the scholar is rarely well remembered.

If you want to lose weight, whole-wheat bread, couscous, and quinoa are evil.

Mostly I'm just not American. I spent four years of my childhood here, but I think if you're Canadian you have a very different perspective. You don't think you're at the center of things.

Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book.

Sorrow's child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come.

I have been married three times and it just keeps better and better, but I'm going to stop here.

I don't want to put anyone down, but you won't see any twerking from me.