I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.

Doing justice to others is a virtue

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

You can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: which is: Try to please everybody.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone

How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because...

By serving others, you can identify yourself

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but sail we must and not drift, nor lie...

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk.

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.

Taking revenge is not the be all and end all

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.