Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention but it has no persuasive value at all.

If you want to be an entrepreneur it's not a job it's a lifestyle. It defines you. Forget about vacations about going home at 6 pm - last thing at night you'll send emails first thing in the morning you'll read emails and you'll wake up in the middle of the night. But it's hugely rewarding as you're fulfilling something for yourself.

I got a lovely check today from being a writer that I earned by sitting at home. That's rewarding.

Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it.

The majority see the obstacles the few see the objectives history records the successes of the latter while oblivion is the reward of the former.

There's definitely evidence that capitalism at its most ruthless rewards psychopathic behavior. When you look at the worst corners of the American health insurance industry or the sub-prime banking market it really feels like the more psychopathically someone behaves the more it's rewarded.

The health care system is really designed to reward you for being unhealthy. If you are a healthy person and work hard to be healthy there are no benefits.

I think money is essential to happiness and right now I wouldn't want to be anyone other than Wilbur Smith - I've had a fantastic life rewarded far more heavily than I deserve. Maybe I'd like to be J. K. Rowling but I'll settle for second best.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.