Kindness is more powerful than compulsion.

The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.

Don't limit investing to the financial world. Invest something of yourself, and you will be richly rewarded.

The best place to succeed is where you are with what you've got.

One can succeed at almost anything for which he has enthusiasm.

There is nothing else that so kills the ambitions of a person as criticisms from superiors. I never criticize anyone...If I like anything, I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.

We are all salesmen every day of our lives. We are selling our ideas, our plans, our enthusiasms to those with whom we come in contact.

I quickly learned that if I kept at it and plowed right through the rejections I would eventually get somebody to buy my wares.

The man who has done less than his best has done nothing.

I couldn't read. I just scraped by. My solution back then was to read classic comic books because I could figure them out from the context of the pictures. Now I listen to books on tape.

The way to get things done is to stimulate competition. I do not mean in a sordid, money-getting way, but in the desire to excel.

But fear and fascination are yokefellows, oxen out of step but pulling in the same direction...

Strong people write bad stories.

An artist is a man who tries to express the inexpressible.

My poetry is a game. My life is a game. But I am not a game.

No matter how fair the sun shines, Still it must set.

Mom told me, “It probably gets pretty lonely to be Grandma, don’t you think?” I told her, “It probably gets pretty lonely to be anyone

It's fairly easy to break hearts, Miss Duvall. The more interesting challenge is how to keep someone's love, not to lose it.

The dunes are changed by the wind, but the desert never changes. That's the way it will be with our love for each other

When all our tears have reached the sea, part of you will live in me.

The criterion of action is that todays work should not be deferred till the following day.