... one's own faults are always a heavy chain to drag through life and one can't help groaning under the weight now and then.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

The act of speaking our intentions aloud shifts them from wishful thinking into action.

Neither death nor wisdom has a full stop. There are only commas-no destinations, only waiting rooms.

The meaning of good and bad of better and worse is simply helping or hurting.

We recognize the reality of the marketplace. We're fighting to win, and that's what we're going to do. This is not the time to hide.

The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin

It's funny, because I have periods where I just kind of go dark. I don't tweet, I don't talk, I don't interview, and then I have times where I do.

As a child, the person I admired most in the world was Lana Turner! She seemed the epitome of glamour, and her glitzy surroundings so enviable, the opposite of my mother's extremely banal taste.

I can now focus on a huge audience through TV, books, cookware and foods.

The way you get deals done and the way you get good terms, is to have a competitive situation.

If you jump, you best jump far.