“You have the clean canvas of a whole week before you. Paint well.”

True leadership is servanthood. Put the interests of others at the center of your decisions.

Teaching kids about money is never just about money.

For your own good, for the good of your family and your future, grow a backbone. When something is wrong, stand up and say it is wrong, and don’t back down.

Be an evangelist with your excellence.

If hard work, integrity, thrift, and perseverance have caused you to succeed, then you don’t owe anyone an apology for winning.

If people in America would get their finances together and start taking care of each other, we could put the government out of business.

We’ve really got to stop looking to Washington to fix our problems. It obviously doesn’t have the ability to do that. People who are successful are not successful because of the president.

The paid-off home mortgage has taken the place of the BMW as the status symbol of choice.

Goals convert vision into ENERGY.

When you’re trying to achieve a goal, negative people will just bring you down. Surround yourself with the positive.

Wealth comes from hard work but not because of hard work. Wealth comes because of God. Everything is His.

Leading a family is the hardest job a man can ever have.

When I do something stupid with money and lose it, I call that Stupid Tax. I have paid so much Stupid Tax that I am expert.

Every person falls down at some point. Successful people choose to get back up!

Contentment is both the fruit and the tree.

It’s never too late to turn things around. You are the only obstacle.

In the waking dreams our societies permit, in our myths, our arts, our songs, we celebrate the nonbelongers, the different ones, the outlaws, the freaks.

It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.

Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

Tear me open and I will bleed in your name. My heart aches from your absence, but in the aching and breaking is where my art is born.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.