The surest way of being considered eccentric is just to be yourself. So few of us have the nerve.

until you learn that an artist cannot afford to scorn any phase of life that is human, you will never do great work.

creation, like vengeance, is God's. It is dangerous when man tampers with it.

There's nothing so unreliable as figures, and everybody but a mathematician knows that. Figures lie right to your face.

I never think over my mistakes. I just live up to them.

The companionship of a secret is often corruptive to good habits, such as sleep and appetite.

Youth makes no compromise with life. It demands all, passionately; loses all, or wins, with anguish of spirit.

I wanted to forgive my mom and my dad so badly for the deep hurt they caused, the fear their broken marriage invoked in me, but I also didn’t want to pretend anymore. Pretending is exhausting.

Brand and product don’t compete. Brand is product, and everything else conforming to the unique story that consumers create when they think of you.

Scars are not signs of weakness, they are signs of survival and endurance.

You're just a coward, like all those who stand behind the suffering of others.

I could listen to the radio and I had access to books from time to time. Not all the time.

To operate a company of the size of Sears Holdings or Wal-Mart or Target or Home Depot or Lowes, you need a combination of skills, and each of those skills needs to be sufficiently strong.

Astrology is like any other branch of knowledge. It can be used for good or for ill, properly or improperly, by skilled and unskilled practitioners alike.

I don't have any comment on who the people of Russia choose to be their leaders.

A basic rule of baking is that, in general, it's almost impossible to make an inedible batch of brownies.

Great teachers have high expectations for their students, but higher expectations for themselves.