My hopes were high, and I looked every day for some change to take place. What it was to be I knew not, but that it would come I felt certain if I kept on. One day the chance came.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

You are what you think. So just think big, believe big, act big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, love big and live big.

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.

Young man, make your name worth something.

No man becomes rich unless he enriches others.

Take away my people, but leave my factories and soon grass will grow on the factory floors......Take away my factories, but leave my people and soon we will have a new and better factory.

Wealth is not to feed our egos but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves.

Be king in your dreams. Make your vow that you will reach that position, with untarnished reputation, and make no other vow to distract your attention.

The greatest astonishment of my life was the discovery that the man who does the work is not the man who gets rich

The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do.

At some point, loneliness becomes less a condition than a habit.

If you never bother to say the words, why should anyone believe you ever felt them?

I hope it won't take long.

There is a lot of difference between failure and defeat. Failure is when you are defeated and neither learn nor contribute anything.

I don't think we get a choice in who we fall for," Ian whispers. "I think we just do.

The truth is not beautiful - it stands on cloven hooves - it is covered in coagulated blood - but it is the truth.

And the biggest, coldest power play of all in Obamacare came at the expense of the elderly.

Temptation said that we all dream of committing crimes, but that only the unbalanced make that macabre idea a reality.

I grew up near the sea in British Columbia and San Francisco, and lived in Malibu and Fiji for years. I get uncomfortable being too far inland.

All the best, Sydney P.S. "The Red Hurricane" is what I named the car. P.P.S. Just because I like you, it doesn't mean I still don't think you're an evil creature of the night. You are.