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

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.

A big part of being strong financially is that you know where you are weak and take action to make sure you don’t fall prey to the weakness. And we ALL are weak.

Financial peace isn’t the acquisition of stuff. It’s learning to live on less than you make, so you can give money back and have money to invest. You can’t win until you do this.

Without a mission statement, you may get to the top of the ladder and then realize it was leaning against the wrong building!

Those who don’t manage their money will always work for those who do.

Success is a pile of failure that you are standing on.

Bosses push, Leaders pull. Real leadership is servant leadership.

I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say ‘he feels deeply, he feels tenderly’.

We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore- except to make our lives into a work of art.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Well, art is art, isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water!

Taking time for your art is taking time for yourself.

The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.

Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.

Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.