To run this business ... you need ... optimism, humanism, enthusiasm, intuition, curiosity, love, humour, magic and fun, and that secret ingredient-euph oria.

If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.

To succeed you have to believe in something with such a passion that it becomes a reality.

The business of business should not be about money. It should be about responsibility. It should be about public good, not private greed

Be courageous. It's one of the only places left uncrowded.

Whatever you do, be different - that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can't think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If you're different, you will stand out.

If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.

Speed, agility and responsiveness are the keys to future success.

My passionate belief is that business can be fun, it can be conducted with love and a powerful force for good.

We communicate with passion and passion persuades.

If you really didn't ever want to get wrinkles, then you should have stopped smiling years ago!

It was my turn to be silent while a small family of moments crossed my path, single file, from the left, sticking their tongues out at me.

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

I never give up hope.

Have you ever loved somebody, loved her completely, but had to end the relationship for life reasons?

Performing is one thing, and day-to-day stuff - like the way you talk to people - is totally different. If I acted like I did onstage in normal life, everyone would probably hate me.

If he [Donald Trump]can boost Mitt Romney's performance five points among white folks, he could have a shot.

Life is not about how many times you fall down. It's about how many times you get back up.

The jealousy of the dead is lasting!

Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by rowing against the stream.

We don't wish for the easy stuff. We wish for big things. Things that are ambitious, out of reach.