Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.
Everyone expects to go further than his father went; everyone expects to be better than he was born and every generation has one big impulse in its heart-to exceed all the other generations of the past in all the things that make life worth living.
To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.
To sink a six-foot putt with thirty million people looking over your shoulder, convince yourself that, if you miss it, you will be embarrassed and poor.
I want to do it because I want to do it.
Fear, desire, hope still push us on toward the future.
Money never remains just coins and pieces of paper. Money can be translated into the beauty of living, a support in misfortune, an education, or future security.
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
Lust and force are the source of all our actions; lust causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.
I don't make deals for the money. I've got enough, much more than I'll never need. I do it to do it. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
Wealth ... and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and vicious-ness, and both of discontent.
Anxiety and conscience are a powerful pair of dynamos. Between them, they have ensured that I shall work hard, but they cannot ensure that one shall work at anything worthwhile.
Money and women. They're the two strongest things in the world. There are things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money.
It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
My advice about acting? Speak clearly, don't bump into people, and if you must have motivation, think of your pay packet on Friday.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form of, perhaps only some formula of, peace.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
The breakfast of champions is not cereal, it's the opposition.
There's only one good reason to be a writer-we can't help it! We'd all like to be successful, rich and famous, but if those are our goals, we're off on the wrong foot. ... I just wanted to earn enough money so I could work at home on my writing.
