The richest persons are those who give most in service to others.

A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life: not on what you don't want.

A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done.

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

No reader owes me anything - I am owed nothing for my noble efforts, because my writing was always unconditional, always coming out of inner necessity.

You got a lot but you just waste all yourself. They'll forget your name soon and won't nobody be to blame but yourself.

The Outsider isn't [Albert] Camus, but in The Outsider there are parts of Camus. There's this impression of exile.

The choice is not between drugs and no drugs, but between illegal drugs and legal drugs. Until the 1920s drugs were legal, why not now? Lots of people are on drugs anyway - it is called medication.

People from here will often say, "I'm not from the United States, I'm from New Orleans."

Mankind have love, animals have affection. The harmonious and beautiful world is revealed.

I started coming to L.A. as often as I could, for three months on and three months off, because immigration kicks you out after 90 days.

Honesty will never break you.