Strength is derived from unity. The range of our collective vision is far greater when individual insights become one.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

You are what you think. So just think big, believe big, act big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, love big and live big.

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.

Young man, make your name worth something.

No man becomes rich unless he enriches others.

Take away my people, but leave my factories and soon grass will grow on the factory floors......Take away my factories, but leave my people and soon we will have a new and better factory.

Wealth is not to feed our egos but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves.

Be king in your dreams. Make your vow that you will reach that position, with untarnished reputation, and make no other vow to distract your attention.

The greatest astonishment of my life was the discovery that the man who does the work is not the man who gets rich

The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do.

Don’t you dare focus your energy on the 99 reasons something can’t be done. Focus on the one thing you can do and the 99 won’t matter.

I've probably put my 10, 000 hours into writing, but I believe writing well is also greatly influenced by certain intangibles like mood and inspiration.

We choose to embrace a quest, and we choose to live for adventure.

To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.

I've done too many stupid things for there not to be movies made about me when I'm dead, so I might as well write the script.

Once I decide to do something, I can't have people telling me I can't. If there's a roadblock, you jump over it, walk around it, crawl under it.

Dad has brought me a cup of tea in bed this morning! I said, 'Vati, why are you waking me up in the middle of the night? Are you on fire?

I was born in Paris, and I haven't moved, except until now - I live in the suburbs and I hate it.

To write or speak is to communicate. To communicate is to share meanings, make them ‘common’ to all participants in the discourse. (The etymological root of communication means ‘common.’)

The young cult of sociology, needing a language, invented one. There are many dead languages, but the sociologists' is the only language that was dead at birth.