Put it this way: If I asked, ‚How’s business?‘ and you say, ‚Boomin‘ or ‚Amazing,‘ I already know the answer.

At first, I was called a quack, a charlatan, and worse, year after year, in Australia, England and the United States, by men who simply refused to believe that a nurse from ‚the bush‘ could devise a treatment which succeeded where they had failed.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

I have a good team. It’s good to have a good team.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

I remember the first time I heard a teenager say ‚LOL.‘ Just what? But it means ‚laugh.‘ Why don’t you just laugh? What are you doing?

When your mother asks, ‚Do you want a piece of advice?‘ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

When I tell a child something the first time, I’m nice. The 15th time, I start to get aggravated.

Silence is more eloquent than words.

Let the path be open to talent.

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any forum that would require me to stop talking for three hours.

Do the best you can, and don’t take life too serious.

Nothing will work unless you do.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

I try to see the good in everybody, and I don’t care who people are as long as they’re themselves, whatever that is.

Sometimes I wonder why I’m a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened, and I became a writer. And now I’m a successful writer.

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

I think it’s OK to be confident in yourself.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

There’s something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

I was sure I’d set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth – that I hadn’t set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if ‚The Big Trail‘ had been a success and launched me as a star.

I don’t feel too much pressure. I only see an opportunity.

A lot of guys are able to separate how they act off the court versus how they act on the court.

There are a lot of self-imposed restrictions by people who somehow believe they have to fall in with a certain military cant. There was always a sense that we had to put things into words that would touch our troops‘ hearts, not just their heads.

‚No comment‘ is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‚cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.

The only way I hear gossip is if it’s big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it’s, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist – and she hates making that phone call!

The question isn’t, ‚What do we want to know about people?‘, It’s, ‚What do people want to tell about themselves?‘

We’re running the company to serve more people.

I always thought that if I made it big or got successful at what I had started out to do, that I wanted to come back to my part of the country and do something great, something that would bring a lot of jobs into this area.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

If you’re a politician, you might want to learn the Buddhist way of negotiation. Restoring communication and bringing back reconciliation is clear and concrete in Buddhism.

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.

People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people – and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.

The longer a man’s fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S.

I think that once you’ve had a few No. 1s in your career that you’ve kind of proven yourself, and I don’t feel the need to prove anything anymore.

Nobody’s ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they’ll have good voice boxes in case there’s ever anything really meaningful to say.

I got a signed document from Bullock’s saying that they had such-and-such drawings on consignment. Of course, nobody bought any of them, but otherwise, I was a big success: I had my drawings on sale at Bullock’s!

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.