The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies.

I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.

Some people find an interest in making money, and though they appear to be slaving, many actually enjoy every minute of their work.

Never buy four C-plus paintings when you can buy one A.

The greatest power is not money power, but political power.

Your Majesty, I took the liberty because I was so desirous of visiting alone with you for a few minutes before the rest of the other peasants arrived.

Few things are as essential as education.

Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.

Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.

All I ever seek from good deeds is a measure of respect.

People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.

When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.

It is not easy to find something that will intrigue and bind your interest and enthusiasm. This you must seek for yourself.

In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.

The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges.

I'd heard he was good, and what the hell sense does it make not to hire somebody because of their color?

Accomplish something every day of your life.

God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.

Don't worry about it. Babe Ruth struck out on occasion, too.

Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.

You will not be satisfied unless you are contributing something to or for the benefit of others.

Our blood will turn from red to blue, although our money is but new.

Carter's done a lot more good since he's been out of the White House than when he was in it.

My success? Being born the son of Moses Annenberg.

TV is like theater. You can't enjoy it without a program.

I shall participate, I shall contribute, and in so doing, I will be the gainer.

The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies.

My country has been very good to me; I must be good to my country.

It is unsound for an independent editor to be a financial contributor to any cause which would cause any type of special pleading.

What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.

I cannot compromise or inhibit my independence.

Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone.

I thought Nixon was getting ganged up on, but when I heard the tapes, I was shocked and terribly saddened.

I didn't feel the Depression at all. I always had a pocketful of money.

I have very little respect for Nancy Reagan. There is something about her that is very petty.

Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life.

Many activities and team play participation will give you a training that will prove invaluable later on in life.

When we hold back out of laziness that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.

I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream.

What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.

In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes.

Young people discovering their sexuality must know they walk with a strong tradition and that they are not alone. They have a right to information without being pressured.

Being a publicist is like management in a lot of ways - you're their friend, you're their mother, you're their confidante.

I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough to start becoming personal on stage.

I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product.

Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did.

It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in a seasick steamer, and after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak three times, and then I'll be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?

I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!

I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say.