Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.

The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.

Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone and following one after the other like a flock of sheep. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods.

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

Do not focus on money, instead focus on a problem that needs to be solved for the world..money will follow you as a bi-product.

Two qualities are at the root of all meditation development: right effort and right aim—arousing effort to aim the mind toward the object.

All human happiness or misery takes the form of action

The possessions themselves were not the problem, it was my relationship with possessing.

Let's not be too tough on our own ignorance. It's the thing that makes America great. If America weren't incomparably ignorant, how could we have tolerated the last eight years?

Gold is a relic from a time when government's were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now.

Don't look for someone who will solve all your problems; look for someone who will face them with you.

There is a lot lacking on the intellectual side and on the values side when being an actor.

There's a fine line between marketing and grand theft.

I'm bi-lots of things but lingual isn't one of them. Wait, did I mean to say that?