The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.

Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

I don't take success and failure seriously. The only thing I do seriously is march forward. If I fall, I get up and march again.

Life is full of happiness and tears; be strong and have faith.

I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.

My thinking is lot more different with many actresses in the industry. I don't understand why people in showbiz put their profession of acting in the back seat after marriage.

Once, in a magazine interview, I said the difference between shoe ladies and bag ladies is that shoe ladies are just a bit classier. Finished! That started World War III among all the women I knew. I only meant that shoes do more for your look and body than bags do!

Lead yourself whenever your boss' leadership deteriorates. When your boss doesn't praise what you do, praise yourself. When your boss doesn't make you big, make yourself big. Remember, if you have done your best, failure does not count.

Never make a decision when you are upset, sad, jealous or in love.

I am a person who always tries not to be easily influenced by position or achievement. I thank God for the fact that I can share more kindness and a good quality of life through the popularity. Not for the popularity itself.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

If you like a person you say 'let's go into business together.' Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.

I am a positive thinker. You have to have this positive energy to get somewhere.

If you go 90 yards in a hundred-yard race, you come last. Usain Bolt slows down for the last half a yard, but for 99 yards, he is that far ahead that he can. In our business, you can't be far enough ahead. It is such a competitive marketplace.

People are always going to go shopping. A lot of our effort is just: 'How do we make the retail experience a great one?'

They already know all about brands... but what 16- and 17-year-olds won't necessarily have is experience of the world of work. The more that businesses get involved with schools, the better, because businesses sometimes complain that students don't have what they require to succeed in work.

Good, bad or indifferent, if you are not investing in new technology, you are going to be left behind.

It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

Man dies of cold, not of darkness.

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.

That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.