Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner. The asset I most value, aside from health, is interesting, diverse, and long-standing friends.

Just do it! First you make your habits, then your habits make you!

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.

If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.

Look for 3 things in a person. Intelligence, Energy, & Integrity. If they don't have the last one, don't even bother with the first two.

The best investment you can make, is an investment in yourself... The more you learn, the more you'll earn.

Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.

Successful Investing takes time, discipline and patience. No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time: You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

The Happiest people DO NOT necessarily have the BEST THINGS. They simply APPRECIATE the things they have.

We don't have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.

The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint.

The person she liked best didn't like her enough to want more of her, and she didn't want to pretend that wasn't awful.

We read of preaching the Word out of season but we do not read of praying out of season for that is never out of season.

Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways.

If you are supposed to be villainous and have some sort of agenda, I like the idea of delivering that kind of character in a perfectly well-mannered way.

I think I do pretty well with child characters. It's hard to write kids that are realistic, not annoying, and bring something to the story.

In some way they are all self-portraits, but I think I know what you mean by asking this - I would say, it is too idealistic to paint yourself.

When an administration embarks on a war justified by little or no intelligence, speaking the truth can be regarded as treachery. The country could use more of that kind of "treachery".

I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different. All your life you've been training to forget yourself, so when you're in danger, it becomes your first instinct

I think Irish people started to move to the United States - many things that were of consequence. And it was a tiny and mild event compared to what had happened 74,000 years ago.