If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

I never would have been able to tithe the first million dollars I ever made if I had not tithed my first salary, which was $1.50 per week.

Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed

I was early taught to work as well as play. My life has been one long, happy holiday; Full of work and full of play- I dropped the worry on the way- And God was good to me everyday.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.

The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.

Are you keeping up your good studies at school and working as hard as you always did?

If you love your dad, it’s tough when he dies. If you don’t like your dad, it’s tough when he dies. Because you lose that guy. Whatever you didn’t get, you miss. And what you did get, you miss.

The problem of architecture as I see it is the problem of all art – the elimination of the human element from the consideration of the form.

Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.

Allowing anger to seethe on the back burner will lead to a very large lid blowing off a very hot pot.

I like telling stories.

First of all, I'm pretty private about my personal life.

How can one find the first moment of love? When, in what instant, does the night's dark sky become blue?

You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.