When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.

It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'

What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort.

If you promote peace and progress for others, I don’t think you will have sleepless nights.

You put cow dung on my face?’ ‘Every day religiously until you were three. Why else do you think your skin is so clear?

You can't lock yourself up and make yourself completely safe. You can't. It's not possible.

I mean I’m 16 and 17 years wiser now. So if I could do it when I was 18 with a guy, I can certainly do it at 33 with a lady.

[In New York,] when you say you're an actor, there's a certain level of respect that goes with that.

I quit because I can’t stand seeing kids come to class hungry and needing shoes. I thought I could do more by organizing farm workers than by trying to teach their hungry children.

In my community there were two groups of people, There were the ones who did not die and the ones who came back to life.

Not everyone is nice and good to work with or grateful for the experience.

happiness, unlike grief, does not clamor for a chronicler.

The media tries to do what they do. You can't stop. You gotta get money.