The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

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.

With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.

When you give certain unnecessary people the reason and permission to oppose you, give them the power and strength to oppose you

The failure to work out sensible budgets makes it impossible for government agencies to make long-term plans, and instead leaves them scrambling to spend money in the short term.

I know how to set an irrigation tube, and I helped with the harvest. I learned the law of the harvest without even knowing I was learning it. On the farm, you learn early that you reap what you sow.

Writing novels takes up about 100% of my available working time.

I wouldn't do anything different. Every mistake and every success made me the person I am today. And I am proud of who I am.

Children are paparazzi. They take your picture with their minds when you don't want them to see you at your worst. Trust me, they SEE and HEAR everything.

I get photographers hiding in my bushes. We're way past autographs. We're into being stalked and followed.

She is sadder and sadder, and for a man there is no balm more soothing than the sadness he has caused a woman.

A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.