Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.

Life is an adventure, it’s not a package tour.

I respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake’s important.

I write some country music. There’s a song called ‚I Hope You Dance.‘ Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody beat me to it.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

Mars is the only place in the solar system where it’s possible for life to become multi-planetarian.

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‚What are you doing for others?‘

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.

My favorite literary heroine is Jo March. It is hard to overstate what she meant to a small, plain girl called Jo, who had a hot temper and a burning ambition to be a writer.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Percentage margins don’t matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.

No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius.

By the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.

Life is short, the art long.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren’t random.

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

I draw from the crowd a lot.

Steven Spielberg was my childhood hero.

One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

I was approached about having my own network many, many years ago. There were some people who wanted to start up a network, and I didn’t want to get that involved in the business aspect of it.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

Water is the driving force of all nature.

It is normal to give away a little of one’s life in order not to lose it all.

The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.