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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Success is the child of audacity.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.

How important has Phil Jackson been to the success of the Lakers? He's very important.

Oprah is more than an institution. Oprah is a very special star in the firmament. I can't imagine a greater success than she's enjoyed.

Some people are uncomfortable with the idea that humans belong to the same class of animals as cats and cows and raccoons. They're like the people who become successful and then don't want to be reminded of the old neighborhood.

I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.

And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother's push to get me to read and to make something of myself from the standpoint of an education.

If the U.N. were to be successful in its efforts to control the Internet, countries where human rights records range from questionable to criminal could be put in charge of determining what is and is not allowed to appear online.

That's the danger of having too much success. You lose that magic, that feeling of not being in control, which I feel now, it's too controlled.