There is no use whatsoever in trying to help people who do not help themselves.

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.

Death is no enemy, but the foundation of gratitude, sympathy, and art. Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.

People would say - to break free, to soar, and sadly, to chop your wings too. The moment you listen to them, you voluntarily put yourself in a cage. Be a free soul - fly or fall on your own terms.

First contact comes not by hand of man, but by metal of machine.

...there is something demoniac in human nature that we are unable to stop revering.

Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it's more scary to draw. It's more revealing. You can't disguise yourself in drawing.

I really do put it on Bill Clinton's presidency as the time when the Democrats became the party of the college degree as the key to success in life.

When we begin to believe that there is greater joy in working with and for others, rather than just for ourselves, then our society will truly become a place of celebration.

The NCAA is probably the most reprehensible organization God ever created.

I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.

We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.