“I love anybody who's willing to stick to their own vision, their own voice, who's not easily swayed by money or by financiers who are going to tell them what they should do.”

“Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.”

“I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.”

“What will people say?”
“Who,” I asked, “is going to tell them?”

“Writers don't own their words. Since when do words belong to anybody? 'Your very own words,' indeed! And who are you?”

“What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.”

“You've got to follow your passion. You've got to figure out what it is you love--who you really are. And have the courage to do that. I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.”

“Anybody who would like to have a long life and make his subsistence expanded, should pay visits to his own relatives.”

“We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it — for a little while.”

“The entrepreneur is the person who seeks to identify what consumers, at home or abroad or both, want and would be willing to buy at a profitable price. These entrepreneurs are the job-creators because it is they who gather the men and women, the material, the machinery, and the money to turn the vision of a market into a reality.”