Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.

Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

To hear always, to think always, to learn always, it is thus that we live truly. He who aspires to nothing, who learns nothing, is not worthy of living.

He who is continually changing his point of view sees more, and more clearly, than one who, statue-like, forever stands upon the same pedestal; however lofty and well-placed that pedestal may be.

It takes a great man to make a great listener

Do not be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture.

Listen: being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.

It's your own fear of failure that stops you from doing things.

In July, 1892, fate suddenly granted me financial independence.

I love my mom! You can too for $12!

Your music sounds better on the radio, for some reason. It's an amazing feeling. I hope it never goes away.

I have reached a limit in my work.

Few things are as uniquely painful as bad comedy, and the realization that the human mind is a house of mirrors with no entrance and no exit.

After quitting radio I was able to live on the money I saved on aspirins.

Our continent must be allowed to do its own things, charting its course and destiny.

Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents.