You have to shelf your excitement and be realistic about your internal and external strengths and weaknesses. (p.70)

Whatever achievements and successes I've had didn't happen overnight. It is all a product of guidance, hard work, careful planning, and intense, passionate execution over many years. (p. 69)

I think my mission is to be in business so I can create a positive impact that will uplift the others around me. (p. 78)

Like blood, money is a blessing that should be shared, but you must be a responsible giver.

Don't be afraid if your idea is crazy, because good things come from crazy ideas. (p. 96)

I was excited to do something, even if I didn't know what it was. I think you need that feeling—that excitement, that fire—to make your dreams a reality. (p.59)

Don't be afraid of challenges. Let them take you somewhere new.

When a person feels powerless in regard to controlling his life, he can defend against the discomfort of such an experience by asserting control over someone else.

Writer's block isn't always a problem. It can be a process of writing that helps us write better.

I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.

When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.

If you love somebody let them know every day.

I stopped smoking. When I stopped smoking, my voice changed... so drastically, I couldn't believe it myself.

I don't really know that I really have an opinion that I think people need to hear.

Not surprisingly, work-life moaners tend to be a phenomenon of below-average performers.

Everyday was another day spent waiting. Every night was another night when she might meet someone who would recognize her true worth.