It isn't what a man's got in the bank, but what he's got in his head, that makes him a great merchant.

It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.

You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.

Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.

Every fellow is really two men -- what he is and what he might be; and you're never absolutely sure which you're going to bury till he's dead.

Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage.

Never ask a man what he knows, but what he can do.

When a fortune comes without calling, it's apt to leave without asking.

What you know is a club for yourself, and what you don't know is a meat-ax for the other fellow.

Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.

Were we all one body, we should lose the tremendous stimulation that comes from the present arrangement, and I fear that our uniformity would become the uniformity of death and the tomb.

Strive to have the faith of a child

Becoming a culturally intelligent innovators starts with something as basic as exercising self-control.

Poetry is prose, bent out of shape.

Where the sun sets, love rises!

You've probably read in People that I'm a nice guy - but when the doctor first told me I had Parkinson's, I wanted to kill him.

Just because you put higher-octane gasoline in your car doesn't mean you can break the speed limit. The speed limit's still 65.

God, what is all this talk put out by the popes? Paradise is here, my good man. God, give me no other paradise!

Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.

The television set's on while the family's sitting around having dinner or talking. Nobody's watching TV; it's there; they're aware of it, but they're not participating. That's passive.

You are my life. You're the only thing it would hurt to lose.