That is the wearisome part of business - there is no peace, no sense of certain, permanent achievement, no stability. The unexpected, and usually the awful, is forever happening.

Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim.

Success of life depends upon keeping one's mind open to opportunity and seizing it when it comes.

There is romance in coffee. It comes from the ends of the earth, and goes to the far corners of man's habitation.

... the deep experience of the lonely climb on the mountain of success brings a wealth beyond power to compute. To you all suffering is understandable and your heart opens wide in sympathy.

One must eliminate the traditional and cling to the essential.

Really to succeed, we must give; of our souls to the soulless, of our love to the lonely, of our intelligence to the dull. Business is quite as much a process of giving as it is of getting.

The small perplexities of small minds eddy and boil about you. Confident from the experience that has led you out of these same dangers, you attack each problem as it appears, unafraid.

for the poor the whole world is a self-constituted critic; your smallest action is open to debate. No secret place of your soul is safe from invasion.

Not only is orderliness an economy; it produces rest.

I simply don't believe in failure. In itself, it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail.

The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope soft underfoot without sudden turnings without milestones without signposts.

And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but overacuteness of the senses?

In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced in television.

I started my entire journey as an indie artist. Ownership has its benefits and it's just about putting in the work. I'm just working.

every one of us possesses a gene predisposing us toward rivalry, competition, and fits of envy with any past, present, or future siblings.

The difference between the truth and a lie is that both of them can hurt, but only one will take the time to heal you afterward.

He who becomes a Prince through the favour of the people should always keep on good terms with them; which it is easy for him to do, since all they ask is not to be oppressed

The colored planes, as much by position and dimension as by the greater value given to color, plastically express only relationships and not forms.

I met her in a club down in North Soho, where you drink champagne and it tastes just like Coca-Cola.

All is without form and void. Someone said of his landscapes that they were pictures of nothing and very like.