Selling out is doing something you don’t really want to do for money. That’s what selling out is.

I’ve never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

It’s rare for a startup to make money immediately, so you need to make sure that you have enough saved or that you have another income stream that can support you.

There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history.

Live-tweeting your bikini wax is not vulnerability. Nor is posting a blow-by-blow of your divorce . That’s an attempt to hot-wire connection. But you can’t cheat real connection. It’s built up slowly. It’s about trust and time.

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

The hardest thing for – not only an artist but for anybody to do is look themselves in the mirror and acknowledge, you know, their own flaws and fears and imperfections and put them out there in the open for people to relate to it.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need, if I die by four o’clock.

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.

The moment there is suspicion about a person’s motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

I didn’t come to Hollywood. Hollywood came to me. A lot of people wish they could say the things I say. Everyone out here is so phony, it’s sickening.

I definitely don’t think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don’t let anyone persuade you to say it.

Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

The money can be a hindrance to someone like me because the danger is that you start thinking, ‚Is that a $20 million take?‘ That kind of thing, and being self-critical.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

If you’re performing music that is not who you are or where you’re at, it is painful. It’s painful for the performer and for the audience.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it’s not just my way or the highway.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy – well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I’m President, I never will.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

I wish they would only take me as I am.

It’s very hard to live with yourself if you don’t stick with your moral code.

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there’s the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn’t do it the way somebody told you to do it.

Right now it’s only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

I don’t need you to be funny. I don’t want to be entertained.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

I always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to.

I’m confident in who I am. I’ve come to a place in my life where I’ve accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That’s just the way I’ve always tried to be. It didn’t change when I became a star.

It’s no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.

You make more money if you’re generous.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

It’s honestly true that money means nothing to me.

My brother Bob doesn’t want to be in government – he promised Dad he’d go straight.

I’ve always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.

I just want to be myself.

I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, ‚Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!‘

I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this time, experiences in the world. And that is so organic – I use this metaphor a lot but I’ll use it again – it’s like a pine tree producing pine cones, or a blackberry bush producing blackberries – it’s just what happens with this being, now.

I have never left another senator out to dry. Never.

An honest man’s the noblest work of God.

America… just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

I don’t mind saying, you know, that I don’t take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books. It’s been printed all over, so I don’t feel like I am hiding anything.

I don’t really have a gimmick or a ‚thing.‘ I’m one of the few artists who gets to be himself every day.