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.

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.

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.

In business everyone is out to grab, to fight, to win. Either you are the under or the over dog. It is up to you to be on top.

Divinity is not a fashion. It is the way of life. It is the need of yourbeing, you have to become that.

I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul.

I'm a pretty aggressive girl in general. So if there's a boy that I like, you're going to know how I feel. I just put it out there.

I consider poetry my vocation, not my "career." My career is as a university professor; that's what pays the bills.

Poetry allows me to write about what I don't know, whereas journalism demands a higher level of certainty to be worthy of being written.

In the middle of Siberia I guess there's a lake that big [ like the Great Lakes], but there are practically no other lakes that big with fresh water.

Everyone knows that the Zionist regime is a tool in the hands of the United States and British governments.

Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.

I don't want to make a half-assed film. It's not my area of expertise.

Winning brought me a wonderful sense of completeness.