In my opinion, an individual without any love of the arts cannot be considered completely civilized.

A man can fail, but he isn't a failure until he blames someone else.

The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavour. The beauty endures. A work of art lives...through the generations and centuries.

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.

The #1 guideline to success is you must be in business for yourself. When you work for someone else, you sell your time at wholesale to your employer, who then re-sells it at retail to the customer.

Men of means look at making money as a game which they love to play.

There are no safeguards that can protect the emotional investor from himself.