At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day. I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest. When I didn’t collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.

My first recollection is that of a bugle call.

You send a boy to school in order to make friends – the right sort.

Tourism provides employment to the poorest of the poor. Gram seller earns something, auto-rickshaw driver earns something, pakoda seller earns something, and tea seller also earns something.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock ‚n roll records to trendy customers.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

I shouldn’t be near Vegas and have money in my pocket.

Right now it’s only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

Your life must be a progression towards ownership – first mentally of your independence, and then physically of your work, owning what you produce.

Frankly, I think that the news industry is critically important because it points out things and surfaces truths that can often be uncomfortable. I think that that’s working, and the spotlight has been pointed on things that we have a responsibility to do better, and I accept that.

Ultimately this issue is on us. We’re the ones who make the decisions about what our kids eat.

Always do everything you ask of those you command.

I don’t think about that. I wasn’t a kid growing up saying one day I’ll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn’t on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child’s name and how old he or she is.

When I was a kid, I never did funny things to get attention. I was never a funny person. I was never, like, ‚Oh, wow. I could say this some day on stage.‘

Politics, according to the Social Doctrine of the Church, is one of the highest forms of charity, because it serves the common good. I cannot wash my hands, eh? We all have to give something!

From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. Pleased with the ‚Pilgrim’s Progress,‘ my first collection was of John Bunyan’s works in separate little volumes.

I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it.

I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.

When I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world.

Duty cannot exist without faith.

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.

I know I have a responsibility to the fans.

I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.

I have worked ever since I was 13.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

We believe that every single child has boundless promise, no matter who they are, where they come from, or how much money their parents have. We’ve got to remember that. We believe that each of these young people is a vital part of the great American story.

Treat your children like the blessings they are or don’t have them at all.

I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven’t had a lesson since.

With my childhood, it’s a wonder I’m not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.

In business, success often depends upon the relative age of your ideas.

My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious – like, I don’t remember them ever being together.

Behold the child, by Nature’s kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Every guilty person is his own hangman.

I have plenty of money, unlike other Hollywood celebrities or athletes that have not invested well.

My mother loved children – she would have given anything if I had been one.

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

I’d go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

I said that America’s role would be limited; that we would not put ground troops into Libya; that we would focus our unique capabilities on the front end of the operation, and that we would transfer responsibility to our allies and partners.

My goals are so high that I don’t have time to relax in any way, shape or form.

My parents were dealing with evictions and repossessions and electricity getting shut off, and I just realized that I had to get it together.

I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?

If there’s one thing that’s certain in business, it’s uncertainty.

From childhood on, I did sit in the courtroom watching my father argue cases and talk to juries.

I think kids are natural actors. You watch most kids; if they don’t have a toy, they’ll pick up a stick and make a toy out of it. Kids will daydream all the time.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

I’m in this business to be creative – I’ll even diminish it and say to be a content provider.

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, ‚One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.‘ That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

People need to be insured so when you have an accident out there, or when something catastrophic happens to you, that you’re covered and there’s not someone else has to pay for you. That is as simple as that.