Greatness consists not in the holding of some future office, but really consists in doing great deeds with little means and the accomplishment of vast purposes from the private ranks of life.

Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them.

You can journey to the ends of the earth in search of success, but if you’re lucky, you will discover happiness in your own backyard.

So, if you feel a smile begin, don't leave it undetected, let's start an epidemic quick, and get the world infected!

Money is power. Every good man and woman ought to strive for power, to do good with it when obtained. I say, get rich, get rich!

No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

When a man has done all he can do, still there is a mighty, mysterious agency over which he needs influence to secure success. The one way he can reach it is by prayer.

Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.

Greatness really consists in doing some great deed with little means.

Let us remember there is not a poor person in the United States who was not made poor by his own shortcomings.

I ask not for a larger garden, but for finer seeds.

..pain can't be taken away. It has to leave on its own. And I wasn't sure mine was the type of pain that wanted to go away.

If I can convince others that there is a God and that they need to know Him, then I have done my job.

Any art which can be subjected to an analytical process is, by this very fact, removed from the possibility of being art.

You see shape, and how the light hits things, how the color changes from one end of the photo to the other, and how movement affects the mood of the photo.

Ornette Coleman is doing the only really new thing in jazz since the innovations in the mid-forties of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and those of Thelonious Monk

In England you laugh at yourselves, in France we laugh at others.

The United States influences government and life everywhere else.

The true way and the sure way to friendship is through humility-being open to each other, accepting each other just as we are, knowing each other.

I don't believe in blaming inanimate objects for anything.

I will play to create history and enjoy myself and give pleasure to the fans.