“Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.”

“If everybody is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction.”

“High expectations are the key to everything.”

“I learned early on that one of the secrets of campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you. I would always look ahead and speak...”

“All of us profit from being corrected - if we're corrected in a positive way.”

“I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.”

“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa”

“At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.”

“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”

“There is no point in getting rich if we lose our soul along the way.”

“Rich and wealth comes to a man only through diligence”

“No paint or dye can give so splendid a colour as gilding. The merit of their beauty is greatly enhanced by their scarcity. With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consis...”

“The motions of the comets are exceedingly regular, and they observe the same laws as the motions of the planets, but they differ from the motions of vortices in every particular and are often contr...”

“Innumerable spirits and souls, when spread out through the same space, do not interfere with each other such that the diffusion of one would affect the diffusion of an infinity of others.”

“Mike Watt and I had the same teacher. Mr. Tanaka.”