“Simplicity and sexiness, that’s what people want. At a price that’s not outrageous.”

If you’re trying to lose weight, you just have to eat less. I mean that.

The older I get, the more impressed I am with women. I have yet to meet a woman who is not strong. They don’t exist.

When a woman becomes her individual most effective close friend existence is simpler.

Generosity is the best investment.

The real story is that I am very free, that I’ve managed to be who I wanted to be without compromising.

I adore dark chocolate.

I travel in so many different ways; I travel high, I rough it, it all depends on who I travel with.

So as a founder, you have an authenticity and a human factor that is really special and that gives an enormous amount of energy and fuel. But as a founder, you’re also not as cold, maybe, or as pragmatic.

If you are trying to slip out without waking a sleeping man, zips are a nightmare. Haven’t you ever tried to creep out of the room unnoticed the following morning? I’ve done that many times.

I get ideas about what’s essential when packing my suitcase.

Personal style is accepting who you are.

In all circumstances, I always look for the light and build around it, with little memory of pain.

Harbour Island in the Bahamas is beautiful, with turquoise water and pink sand.

My face carries all of my memories. Why would I erase them?

You only regret what you don’t do! Go for it, live your dreams and enjoy it all!

I must have books everywhere. They’re the soul of a room-they reveal the taste, the interests, and the secrets of whoever lives there.

When you become larger, the methods you use, the information you have, and people who assist you in attaining your goals should change.

I think by the time you’re grown you’re as happy as you’re goin to be. You’ll have good times and bad times, but in the end you’ll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I’ve knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.

I have to admit that I’m one of those people that thinks the dishwasher is a miracle.

Different people have different ways of doing things. For me, becoming a songwriter first and falling in love with the Nashville songwriting community and the process of songs and getting better and putting more in what I wanted to say, was absolutely vital in me even wanting to be an artist.

If I write a book where all I’ve ever experienced is success, people won’t take a positive lesson from it. In being candid, I have to own up to my own failures, both in my marriage and in my work environment.

Near the gates and within two cities there will be scourges the like of which was never seen: famine within plague, people put out by steel, crying to the great immortal God for relief.

All my life’s about is cracking up people and them cracking me up and trying not to think about dying. That doesn’t cost very much money.

Nothing speaks like results. If you want to build the kind of credibility that connects with people, then deliver results before you deliver a message. Get out and do what you advise others to do. Communicate from experience.