I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

I never would have been able to tithe the first million dollars I ever made if I had not tithed my first salary, which was $1.50 per week.

Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed

I was early taught to work as well as play. My life has been one long, happy holiday; Full of work and full of play- I dropped the worry on the way- And God was good to me everyday.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.

The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.

That's what liberalism is all about, is promoting incompetence on the basis it's fair, because people would be the best if they weren't discriminated against.

I think of myself as a journeyman actress. I will attempt almost anything that I think that I can bring off. It could be almost anything.

My only drive was to be the best dancer in the world, but I never won the world championship.

God insists that we ask, not because He needs to know our situation, but because we need the spiritual discipline of asking.

I had the idea to do an anthology about instrument-making.

And my approach has always been to stand up and speak out on behalf of the economic rights of people.

When another writer in another house is not free, no writer is free.

There are none so deaf as those listening to ‘All by Myself’ over and over and over again.

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

A lot of things just got distorted, like stories about each other. After the tour we never talked. I believe a band should be a band.