I get up in the morning looking for an adventure.

I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.

My dad's my best mate, and he always will be.

Just as a mother would protect her only child with her life, even so let one cultivate a boundless love towards all beings.

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.

My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number.

There is nothing permanent except change.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.