I ask not for a larger garden, but for finer seeds.

Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them.

You can journey to the ends of the earth in search of success, but if you’re lucky, you will discover happiness in your own backyard.

So, if you feel a smile begin, don't leave it undetected, let's start an epidemic quick, and get the world infected!

Money is power. Every good man and woman ought to strive for power, to do good with it when obtained. I say, get rich, get rich!

No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

When a man has done all he can do, still there is a mighty, mysterious agency over which he needs influence to secure success. The one way he can reach it is by prayer.

Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.

Greatness really consists in doing some great deed with little means.

Let us remember there is not a poor person in the United States who was not made poor by his own shortcomings.

Greatness consists not in the holding of some future office, but really consists in doing great deeds with little means and the accomplishment of vast purposes from the private ranks of life.

I want more than last night. I want you.

Looking for consciousness in the brain is like looking inside a radio for the announcer

Bad weather has grounded the Luftwaffe and now we must stand by and watch countless thousands of the enemy getting away to England under our noses.

Today the whole world depends on communism for its salvation, and China is no exception.

You always have to focus in life on what you want to achieve.

In my opinion painting should be considered excellent in proportion as it approaches the effect of relief, while relief should be considered bad in proportion as it approaches the effect of painting.

Clark Gable once said to me, "'Acting school?' [If you go,] I'll kill ya!"

It is quite easy for stupid people to be happy; they believe in fables, and they trot on in a beaten track like a horse on a tramway.

Don't stigmatize in a rush to explain inexplicable evil.

One of the greatest gifts a parent can give a child is to help them find their talents.