Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.

Well, my wife and I were married in a toilet - it was a marriage of convenience!

There is nothing permanent except change.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.

The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.

If you want an interesting party sometime, combine cocktails and a fresh box of crayons for everyone.

Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.

So little done, so much to do.