Understanding a person's hunger and responding to it is one of the most potent tools you'll ever discover for getting through to anyone you meet in business or your personal life.

Human beings invent just as many ways to sabotage their lives as to improve them.

The measure of self-assurance is how deeply and sincerely interested you are in others; the measure of insecurity is how much you try to impress them with you.

Wealth is what you take from the world; worth is what you give back.

Be more interested than interesting.

Wisdom is a dreadfully wonderful gift, giving you great insight but terrible pain that you learn from.

Height gives you the initiative.

It's what's in *yourself* that makes you happy or unhappy.

I don't believe in luck, I believe in preparation.

Justice Scalia is predictable. He can be counted on to come down with a conservative opinion, and generally, to bring Justice Clarence Thomas with him.

If your record doesn't sell that well, man, who cares? All the satisfaction I need... comes when I step out onstage and see the people. That's awesome. I love that.

A sense of humour and a little lack of respect: That's what you need to make a legend survive.

Everything inspires me; sometimes I think I see things others don’t.

Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one's hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it.