Neither the individual nor the race is improved by almsgiving. The best means of benefiting the community is to place within its reach the ladders upon which the aspiring can rise.

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 ugly one, I love you for your waist of gold, my beauty, I love you because of a wrinkle on your forehead, love, I love you because you are clear and dark.

My blood boils when I see people going back to the same person who hurt them like a million times.

And maybe that's all a ghost is, in the end. Regret, grown legs, gone walking.

Creating is the closest thing to being immortal.

To be wealthy you must develop a burning desire for wealth and financial independence.

Plato's concern is not just an intellectual issue, but it is knitted with emotional life as well.

Europe is endearingly old fashioned in its secularism.

Hunger is never delicate.

Every great idea emerges out of a process of trial-and-error experimentation.

Light must come from inside. You cannot ask the darkness to leave; you must turn on the light.