Our clothing, our food, our household furnishings - all could be much simpler than they now are and at the same time be better looking

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the aeroplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

I fly through memory to find a newborn love.

Both of my parents graduated from high school, both attended college, both have government jobs now. They've always been very adamant about me finishing high school and finishing college.

I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth.

Once I walked out of my house into to the Puerto Rican Day parade. It was usually a five-minute walk to work, but that day it took me a half-hour to get to 30 Rock.

To marry and have children is the ideal life for a woman. What career could ever be as fine? To give the world splendid men and women-isn't that the noblest thing a woman could possibly do?

Even as a kid I would find the one person whose attention I didn't have and I would zone in on that person. It became a challenge.

I tell myself that, regardless of what source I draw on, I'm writing a new work for reasons peculiar to me and not an adaptation, and so feel, in the end, justified in singing it my way.

I, for one, resent it when a representative of the people refers to you and me, the free men and women of this country, as 'the masses.'

I would have waived the Jones Act, and some unions not might not like it, not union membership, but the union leaders, too many, who are thugs.

You have to starve the Beast. That's one of the most important things about tax cuts. If you leave the money in Washington, it's going to be spent.