What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.

The first qualification for success in my view is a strong work ethic.

Nobody can really guarantee the future. The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them and then make our plans with confidence.

Profits are the ultimate measure of how efficiently we provide customers with the best products for their needs. Profits are required to survive and grow.

We have a tremendous investment in facilities for (internal combustion engines, transmissions, and axles) and I can't see throwing them away just because the electric car doesn't emit fumes.

A generation ago there were a thousand men to every opportunity, while today there are a thousand opportunities to every man.

In seeking to serve social needs because it makes good business sense to do so, a corporation is doing what it knows how to do best.

Obsolescence is the very hallmark of progress.

Nobody can really guarantee the future. The best we can do is size up the chances calculate the risks involved estimate our ability to deal with them and make our plans with confidence.

He loved me and I loved him, but the number in my head was telling me that he was going to die today. And the numbers had never been wrong.

Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.

No one should be twice punished for one crime.

People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form?

Judge your success by what you had to give up to get it.

Magic doesn't happen often - not once in a blue moon ... I expect there isn't another magic ship like this one in the whole world.

When you've been doing comedy for forty years, you really do know most of the jokes. And even if you don't know a specific joke, you can pretty much guess what it's going to be.

In the dictionary, beautiful, love, amazing, and sweet all have the same definition: the definition is you.

Great love is born of great knowledge of the thing that is loved, and if you do not know it, you can love it little or not at all.

In February 1953, I was making a second picture with Jeff Chandler, one called War Arrow. Jeff was a real sweetheart, but acting with him was like acting with a broomstick.