Measure your wealth by what you’d have left if you lost all your money.

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.

There are definitely people who disagree with certain creative decisions you make. Pleasing everyone is pretty hard.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

Really I don’t like human nature unless all candied over with art.

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.

A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we’re children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they’re scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it’s pretty much in the eye of the beholder.

An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it’s beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth… Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

He who is contented is rich.

I’d rather be a victor than a victim.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

You can’t be happy by doing something groovy.

If I have cash and I can’t figure a way to put it into real estate or my business, I hold it in gold and silver.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn’t get there.

It’s God’s will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It’s God’s will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.

When I was 18, I thought that, to be a romantic, you couldn’t live past 30.

I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you’re able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

The common question that gets asked in business is, ‚why?‘ That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, ‚why not?‘

I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

I actually don’t want a throne at all, because I don’t view myself as a queen; I view myself as one of my fans.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

Contrary to reports, this boy is not a billionaire or going to be richer than any Beatle… and not just in the sense of money, by the way; the Beatles are untouchable – those billionaire reports are a joke.

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

Money can’t buy life.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

I didn’t die young. So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn’t survive certain things… people can imagine that I did the most dangerous, and I did the worst… for many reasons, I shouldn’t be here.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

I like gaps; all my stories have gaps. It seems this is the way people’s lives present themselves.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

While victimhood in America is exalted, I don’t think our veterans should join those ranks.

I don’t pretend to understand the Universe – it’s a great deal bigger than I am.

Being ‚contented‘ ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can’t help it. It’s the truth.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, ‚Too much of a good thing can be wonderful‘.

I’m different than most people. When I cross the finish line of a big race, I see that people are ecstatic, but I’m thinking about what I’m going to do tomorrow. It’s as if my journey is everlasting, and there is no finish line.

It’s useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.