As an entrepreneur, you can always find a solution if you try hard enough.

Dear optimist, pessimist, and realist--while you guys were busy arguing about the glass of wine, I drank it! Sincerely, the opportunist!

Entrepreneurs: The only people who work 80 hour weeks to avoid working 40 hour weeks.

Entrepreneurs are willing to work 80 hours a week to avoid working 40 hours a week.

A brilliant idea doesn't guarantee a successful invention. Real magic comes from a brilliant idea combined with willpower, tenacity, and a willingness to make mistakes.

Entrepreneurship is the way we take control of our lives in a tough economy.

You can make anything happen if you put your mind to it.

The big thing for me is, I never think about myself as a female in business. I'm a person in business.

Your success will have everything to do with how you perceive yourself, because how you perceive yourself is how others will perceive you, too.

If your home environment is good and peaceful and easy, your life is better and easier.

In business it is most often all about getting your foot in the door and once you do, everything opens up and things start to naturally progress into bigger and more opportunities.

In order to make our gifts perfect, you need to work on yourself but it hurts

We need to let ourselves be evangelized by the poor. They have much to teach us.

I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

No matter how good you are, you still need grace to get out of the material world. You can be a yogi or a monk or a nun, but without God's grace you still can't make it.

Together we will take the road that leads into the West, And far away will find a land where both our hearts may rest.

Great companies don't just have one founding moment. They have many founding moments.

I was lucky enough to win the Davis Cup in my first year in 1999. I won my first slam at the U.S. Open in 2001 and became world No. 1 later that year. By the age of 20, I'd done it all.

I used to go to the school folk club with my songs when I was only 13 or so and say "this is a traditional folk song" and sing it with a bad Irish accent to disguise the real source.

I loved to write; in my late teens I had a 'zine. But it wasn't until I went back to school, later on in my 20s, that I actually saw that I had writing talent.