"A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom."
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"To be a successful business owner and investor, you have to be emotionally neutral to winning and losing. Winning and losing are just part of the game."
"It's hotter than a snake's ass in a wagon rut."
"The cause of all pain and suffering is ignorance."
"I eat like a vulture. Unfortunately the resemblance doesn't end there."
"I've met a lot of pin-up girls, but I've never been able to pin one down"
"A clown is like aspirin, only he works twice as fast."
"There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something."
"Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one."
"He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages."
"He that divines the secret of my music is freed from the unhappiness that haunts the whole world of men."
"Spend some time alone every day."
"A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart."
"Love is looking at the same mountains from different angles."
"Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them."
"We give of ourselves when we give gifts of the heart: love, kindness, joy, understanding, sympathy, tolerance, forgiveness. . ."
"I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair."
"In my view, I am often immensely rich, not in money, but (although just now perhaps not all the time) rich because I have found my metier, something I can devote myself to heart and soul and that gives inspiration and meaning to my life."
"I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity"
"You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution."