Like dogs in a wheel birds in a cage or squirrels in a chain ambitious men still climb and climb with great labor and incessant anxiety but never reach the top.

I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience.

I'm not a driven businessman but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained progress stops.

Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people.

If you listen to your fears you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Business is never so healthy as when like a chicken it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

If all the economists were laid end to end they'd never reach a conclusion.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority it is time to pause and reflect.

The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought if really want to write it's time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day and I figured I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book.

I'll never forget my 24th birthday when my tooth got punched out. And for a second I was like it would be really hilarious if I sold it on eBay. But I can't that's just too creepy. I don't think I can go there.

I've never looked forward to a birthday like I'm looking forward to my new daughter's birthday because two days after that is when I can apply for reinstatement.

Interventions are really emotionally exhausting and I would never ever want to have one. In the same way I would never want to have a surprise birthday party. That would be horrible.

I like to go to anybody else's birthday and if I'm invited I'm a good guest. But I never celebrate my birthdays. I really don't care.

My ace in the hole as a human being used to be my capacity for remembering birthdays. I worked at it. Whenever I made a new friend I made a point of finding out his or her birthday early on and I would record it in my Filofax calendar.

I trained to be a priest - started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be a priest but when they told me I could never have sex not even on my birthday I changed my mind.

I'm amazed. When I was 40 I thought I'd never make 50. And at 50 I thought the frosting on the cake would be 60. At 60 I was still going strong and enjoying everything.

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.

No matter how good you are at planning the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I feed off it. I turn pressure into motivation to do my best.

No human being is constituted to know the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth and even the best of men must be content with fragments with partial glimpses never the full fruition.

Sleep is good death is better but of course the best thing would to have never been born at all.

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.

I know some people say it's not the best to work with your family but I have never understood that because it's always worked so well for me.