Archived Quotes

The best politics is honesty with humor.

The moment a country stops improving,

it begins to decline.

Anyone who has never made a mistake

has never tried anything new.

Climbing to the top demands strength,

whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

The key to immortality is

first living a life worth remembering.

Human beings, regrettably,

are inherently unequal.

A good plan violently executed now is better than

a perfect plan executed next week

Go to Heaven for the climate,

Hell for the company.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when

they do it from religious conviction.

I don't understand why the press is so interested

in speculating about my appearance,

anyway.

What does my face have to do with my music or my dancing?

The most important single thing is

to focus obsessively on the customer.

I think if we go back and check our record,

the Negro has proven beyond a doubt that we have been more than

patient in seeking our rights as American citizens.

People don’t care how much you know

until they know how much you care.

The task of leadership is

not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it.

Absence and death are the same

only that in death there is no suffering.

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools,

but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow;

it empties today of its strength.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

Be thankful for what you have;

you'll end up having more.

If you concentrate on

what you don't have,

you will never,

ever have enough.