A sunny disposition is worth more than fortune.

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.

My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery-just stark me.

I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.

Fair and unfair are among the most influential words in English and must be delicately used.

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

When your enemies defy you, you must serve them steel and fire. When they go to their knees, however, you must help them back to their feet. Elsewise no man will ever bend the knee to you

The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.

Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man.

We were so ready [with Valerian] that we were early, which is unheard of in the history of the sci-fi film.

Who do you want to be in your one wild and precious life?

I have no need for that hypothesis.