And there is no use whatever, gentlemen, trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

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.

I could hear my abandoned dreams making a racket in my soul.

Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself (I am large I contain multitudes).

Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man.

When I see that man on the telly - 'Are you thinking what I'm thinking?' No! I'm definitely not! I find most of it quite offensive!

There is a lot of hard work that needs to be done

I tend to a lot of improvisational ranting, and that's fun. For me, stand-up has been, performance-wise, a really good outlet.

Some people talk about Haiti as being the graveyard of development projects.

Mostly I sit at home in the evenings watching the box and hoping that one day I'll evolve into plankton.

O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done, / The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won

A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life.