“It’s easy to have principles when you’re rich. The important thing is to have principles when you’re poor.”

It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun.

In the City of God there will be a great thunder, Two brothers torn apart by Chaos, while the fortress endures, the great leader will succumb, The third big war will begin when the big city is burning.

Happiness is not a tangible thing, it’s a byproduct – a byproduct of achievement.

In business for yourself, but not by yourself.

It is no achievement to walk a tightrope laid flat on the floor.

There’s almost nothing you can’t accomplish if you set your mind to it.

When the exhausted Sun takes up his cycle then my prophecy and threats will be accomplished.

Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.

You’ll learn more about a road by traveling it than by consulting all the maps in the world.

Look after the customer and the business will take care of itself.

In my experience, good executives don’t make mistakes.

If my competitor were drowning I’d stick a hose in his mouth and turn on the water.

Perfection is very difficult to achieve, and perfection was what I wanted in McDonald’s. Everything else was secondary for me.

The organization cannot trust the individual; the individual must trust the organization.

There are things money can’t buy and hard work can’t win. One of them is happiness.

To an old leader will be born an idiot heir, weak both in knowledge and in war.

What is easy is seldom excellent.

A circle cannot fill a triangle, so neither can the whole world, if it were to be compassed, the heart of man; a man may as easily fill a chest with grace as the heart with gold. The air fills not the body, neither doth money the covetous mind of man.

The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.

I’ve always been able to get inside a song really easily, and if it’s my song, I can make it seem honest.

Pregnancy was probably the best and the hardest thing I’ll ever go through. I know for a lot of women, it can be wonderful and relatively easy.

There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.