The nasty little secret was that I couldn't read worth a darn. In my case, I still read very slowly to this moment.

The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.

Don't limit investing to the financial world. Invest something of yourself, and you will be richly rewarded.

The best place to succeed is where you are with what you've got.

One can succeed at almost anything for which he has enthusiasm.

There is nothing else that so kills the ambitions of a person as criticisms from superiors. I never criticize anyone...If I like anything, I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.

We are all salesmen every day of our lives. We are selling our ideas, our plans, our enthusiasms to those with whom we come in contact.

Kindness is more powerful than compulsion.

I quickly learned that if I kept at it and plowed right through the rejections I would eventually get somebody to buy my wares.

The man who has done less than his best has done nothing.

I couldn't read. I just scraped by. My solution back then was to read classic comic books because I could figure them out from the context of the pictures. Now I listen to books on tape.

On the forest floor was the LVR's smoldering ceiling panel, just lying there like the lid of a sardine can that had been eagerly and violently thrown away by someone who very much liked sardines.

I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.

Do you not yet understand what has made woman what she is? Then see what the sickly taste and perverted judgment of man now admires in woman.

War is indefensible on every grounds, military and economic and diplomatic and also on moral.

Sometimes people change their minds, sometimes they meet someone else, sometimes they get sober, and sometimes he was just a jerk who you're lucky to be rid of.

Censorship has been my best press agent my whole life.

Approach your own inner life with a loving quality that accepts who you are without trying to change who you are.

I have a soft spot for bad boys.

Those who say that we want nationality, they are standing against Islam....We have no use for the nationalists. Moslems are useful for us. Islam is against nationality.

I don't want to try to do music or satisfy anyone else's ears; it has to come from here first and what I love.