I don't believe in God. My God is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.

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.

A life without product is a wasted life

Time is inelastic and inflexible. Time is indispensable. No achievement is possible without time.

The young blush much more freely than the old but not during infancy, which is remarkable, as we know that infants at a very early age redden from passion.

(about his terrible attempt at making a sandwich) It's more difficult than it looks. (Artemis Fowl)

my courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.

If a black doctor discovers a cure for cancer, ain't no hospital going to lock him out.

I stole a lot from Gary Oldman. I stole the hairdo from his incarnation of Dracula. We cheated it just enough, so we couldn't get accused of copyright infringement.

I am basically very private, and I'm really nervous about doing publicity.

Let's face it: I paint well. I know it, you know it. There's no arguing really, is there?

I try to be the fixer of situations and I gravitate to people who are institutional misfits.