Save the contrition for the confessional. Regret isn't worth a damn to anyone.

The appreciation of your success will only come with your perseverance.

The best way of keeping a low profile was to immerse himself in the mundane. Act like them, talk like them. A smile, a joke was all it took - at least during the day. The night was his own.

One cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about the world.

If you really examine your own opinions, you'll normally come up with a better one

Optimism is a choice. Cynicism isn't smarter - it's just safer.

No transaction happens unless it is voluntary. It only happens if both of you think you win.

It was like having a genie. I'd only get so many wishes.

The United States is dangerously close to being a plutocracy. A third of the private wealth is owned by less than 5 percent of the population.

I never felt like I was on solid ground, emotionally.

I get so mad about ex-boyfriends, but if a boy hurts me, I don't write a song about it. They don't deserve it!