You cannot ensure the gratitude of others for a favour conferred upon them in the way which is most agreeable to yourself.

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.

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

It takes a great man to make a great listener

Live to the point of tears.

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.

As a young athlete, it was first about having fun; then it was about winning.

If you are an inventor, then you are destined for blood, sweat and tears.

I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work.

I'd always had a crush on Teri Garr - and still do. I've always adored her. I mean, who doesn't think about Teri in Young Frankenstein? I mean, come on! It makes you talk in that accent for weeks.

We all seem to stumble, planning our own demise, Getting the big picture, and making it wallet-sized.

Cruelties should be committed all at once.

We'll always have art, darling.