That smile could move mountains. It could also break hearts.

I don’t need to conform to your ideas of beauty

The opening notes of a song began, some plucking of guitar strings. I knew the melody. It was Maroon 5’s “She Will Be Loved.” As pop songs went, it was pretty damn good, a bit of a favorite of mine.

Don't make me kill you at this hour in the morning Jimmy. It's not civilized.

Never lose your temper.

the whole of Victorian literature done up in grey paper & neatly tied with string

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

Greed is not a financial issue. It's a heart issue.

And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hardly less, if it is less, than that exerted by the way in which it is earned.

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.

Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create.

Some men make money not for the sake of living, but ache In the blindness of greed and live just for their fortune's sake.

The best antidote to stress is resilience... having the ability to respond to change or adversity proactively and resourcefully.

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.