All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

The gods do not need sacrifices, so what might one do to please them? Acquire wisdom, it seems to me, and do all the good in one's power to those humans who deserve it.

If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

Please all, and you will please none.

The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.

It gave me a lot of pleasure and pride that 90 percent of the crew for 'Monsoon Wedding,' and most of my film, are women. We get the work done, you know, much lesser play of ego... And I really believe in harmony, I believe in working in a spirit of egolessness and that the film is bigger than all of us.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.

You just have to trust your instincts and hope that if someone doesn't like your idea, you can prove them wrong in the final process. In the end, you can please some of the people some of the time, but that's about all you can do.

Will some reporter, or some Republican on the Sunday shows, please ask why tax cuts raid the non-existent Social Security Trust Fund but all the Democrats' new spending doesn't? Will someone please ask that?

If the response you finally receive from me is 'thanks but no thanks', then please accept at face value that I would really not be the right investor for you. You've got to trust me on this, and in this case take 'no' for an answer.

You might not trust me. Please give me a chance and time. I will prove myself for all of you.

It's a real pleasure to earn the trust of your customers slowly over time by doing what's right.

Even if you can't afford to travel the world, you can take your children to the museum, zoo or local park. And don't be afraid to take them to grown-up spots. Eating out in a restaurant teaches children how to be quiet and polite and gives them the pleasure of knowing you trust them to behave.

Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong Kong.

Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.

I have too many responsibilities and principles. There's no time for 'guilty' pleasures.

Y'know, you can't please all the people all the time... and last night, all those people were at my show.

I started out printing silk screen t-shirts. I sold ink pens. I worked construction. I worked at a gas station. I pumped gas. I was a mechanic for a little bit. I went into sewers, down into sewer lines. I had a lot of somewhat unpleasant gigs for a time there.