I believe in the Bible. I believe that all good things come from God. I don't believe I'd sing the way I do if God hadn't wanted me to.'

Make them laugh, make them cry, and back to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

Boredom is one of the most blissful feelings.

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.

Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Genius is eternal patience.

Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success.

There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of lack of ambition.

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.

I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.

If youre in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy

Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.