I began to learn what poverty meant. It was burnt in my heart then that my father had to beg for work and there came the resolve that I would cure that when I got to be a man.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

You are what you think. So just think big, believe big, act big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, love big and live big.

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.

Young man, make your name worth something.

No man becomes rich unless he enriches others.

Take away my people, but leave my factories and soon grass will grow on the factory floors......Take away my factories, but leave my people and soon we will have a new and better factory.

Wealth is not to feed our egos but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves.

Be king in your dreams. Make your vow that you will reach that position, with untarnished reputation, and make no other vow to distract your attention.

The greatest astonishment of my life was the discovery that the man who does the work is not the man who gets rich

The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do.

One day, I decided to help wherever I could & it was almost like magic, because I was exactly what the world needed everywhere I went.

Morality is only for the middle class, sweet. The lower class can't afford it, and the upper classes have entirely too much leisure time to fill

Characters are the lifeblood of anygood book.

I never wanted to do observational humor because I never wanted to tell people what they were seeing.

I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children.

I think our society is all about judgment, which is so rude and disrespectful.

Just as stars shine brightest in the darkest night, your joy blazes brilliantly through life's problems when you count them as joy.

You can suffocate a thought by expressing it with too many words.

It's impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time.

Flying saucers are nothing more than miracles, and they occur essentially to bedevil science.