Love is... never asking for more than you are prepared to give.

A key to achieving success is to assemble a strong and stable management team.

Corporate executives and business owners need to realize that there can be no compromise when it comes to ethics, and there are no easy shortcuts to success. Ethics need to be carefully sown into the fabric of their companies.

An open-minded and diverse population that readily shares information, encourages experimentation, accepts failure and dispenses with formality and hierarchy is what makes Silicon Valley the successful hub that it is.

No matter how well things are going, failure and disaster are just around the corner. So celebrate the good, but be ready for the bad.

The mentor-mentee relationship is ideally like that of the guru and disciple: motivated by the desire of the guru to impart knowledge to the disciple.

Most successful entrepreneurs share their knowledge as a way of giving back. They do not demand compensation. Those who do are usually trying to take advantage of you.

What you want in a mentor is someone who truly cares for you and who will look after your interests and not just their own. When you do come across the right person to mentor you, start by showing them that the time they spend with you is worthwhile.

When I became an entrepreneur, I had the knowledge to develop and manage budgets, market products and review legal contracts.

What the tech industry often forgets is that with age comes wisdom. Older workers are usually better at following direction, mentoring, and leading.

If you don't have savings, and your co-founders are as poor as you are, and if Mom and Dad won't loan you money, then your best bet is to find people that know you - your friends. If they, too, won't help, then you're stuck seeking out angel investors.

The truth is that entrepreneurship is more like a roller coaster ride than a cruise.

O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!

The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord.

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.

O month when they who love must love and wed.

Love has a tide!

When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget.

Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.

If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did for the Negro, I would be thankful the rest of my life.

If I can do one hundredth part for the Indian that Mrs. Stowe did for the Negro, I will be thankful.

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

O sweet, delusive Noon, Which the morning climbs to find, O moment sped too soon, And morning left behind.

Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.

I know the lands are lit, with all the autumn blaze of Goldenrod.

Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.

Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.

His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

If by chance some day you're not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I've said or done and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart, then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled.

Today or any day that phone may ring and bring good news.

We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.

Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence.

Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.

Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me.

You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you.

I had the worst birthday party ever when I was a child because my parents hired a pony to give rides. And these ponies are never in good health. But this one dropped dead. It just wasn't much fun after that. One kid would sit on him and the rest of us would drag him around.

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.

Whenever I date a guy, I think, 'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

My boyfriend and I broke up. He wanted to get married and I didn't want him to.

It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Stand-up is my favorite thing I've ever done. There's so much independence.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

I have too many credit cards. You know what happened? Someone stole one and I didn't notice. I noticed when I got that bill. Whoa! It was so much less! I'm letting him keep it. I'm saving money!

Men are self-confident because they grow up identifying with super-heroes. Women have bad self-images because they grow up identifying with Barbie.