There was a time where I chose my jobs based on what jobs were available to me, so I would choose 100 percent of them.

Goals aren't enough. You need goals plus deadlines: goals big enough to get excited about and deadline to make you run. One isn't much good without the other, but together they can be tremendous.

You know, a man's life is the most precious thing in the world, isn't it? So isn't it odd that a man will insure everything but his life?

Doing something costs something. Doing nothing costs something. And, quite often, doing nothing costs a lot more!

If people understood what life insurance does, we wouldn't need salesmen to sell it. People would come knocking on the door. But they don't understand.

Every man has problems that only life insurance can solve. In the young man’s case, the problem is to create cash; for the older man, to conserve it.

Youll have the same problems when I walk out, as you had when I walked in... unless you let me take your problems with me.

The basic purpose of life insurance is to create cash…nothing more or nothing less. Everything else confuses and complicates.

You haven’t done anything wrong. You just haven’t done anything, and that’s what’s wrong.

I do not sell life insurance. I sell money. I sell dollars for pennies apiece. My dollars cost 3 cents per dollar per year.

Life insurance is time. The time a man might not have. If he needs time, he needs life insurance.

Real accomplishments do virtually nothing to serve me and they do everything to serve others. Anything less is nothing more than a meaningless task dressed in the deceptive finery of accomplishments.

One's lifework I have learned grows with the working and the living. Do it as if your life depended on it and first thing you know you'll have made a life out of it. A good life too

Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.

When the people rule, they must be rendered happy, or they will overturn the state.

Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.

It is ridiculous to think that you can spend your entire life with just one person. Three is about the right number. Yes, I imagine three husbands would do it?

Beneath the stars the lake lay dark and sombre," Stead wrote, "but on its shores gleamed and glowed in golden radiance the ivory city, beautiful as a poet's dream, silent as a city of the dead.

It got hard to juggle the funny on set and then even harder in post-production.

You could love me or hate me I swear it won't make me or break me. I'm goin where ever the money takes me.

Depression is something that makes you lose your sight.