We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.

Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.

Those who have accomplished great things in the world have been, as a rule, bold, aggressive, and self-confident. They dared to step out from the crowd and act in an original way. They were not afraid to be generals.

Discouragement, fear, doubt, lack of self-confidence, are the germs which have killed the prosperity and happiness of tens of thousands of people.

Every man must play the part of his ambition. If you are trying to be a successful man, you must play the part.

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do. Never for an instant harbor a doubt of it.

If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.

When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time.

Scatter your flowers as you go; you will never go this way again.

Every young man or woman should weigh the matter well before concluding that a college education is out of the question.

Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.

One can make no better investment than the cultivation of a taste for the beautiful, for it will bring rainbow hues and enduring joys to the whole life. It will not only greatly increase one's capacity for happiness, but also one's efficiency.

It pays to cultivate popularity. It doubles success possibilities, develops manhood, and builds up character.

There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.

It is the idle man, not the great worker, who is always complaining that he has no time or opportunity.

There is inestimable blessing in a cheerful spirit. When the soul throws its windows wide open, letting in the sunshine, and presenting to all who see it the evidence of its gladness, it is not only happy, but it has an unspeakable power of doing good.

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.

No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.

Regard every suggestion that your life may be a failure, that you are not made like those who succeed, and that success is not for you, as a traitor, and expel it from your mind as you would a thief from your house.

Unless generosity of spirit prevails among men, there can never be upon earth an ideal life.

Being happy is a revolutionary act; I think it spreads, like ripples in a pond.

God is being siphoned out of the public arena. People don't even say God bless you when you sneeze anymore. I want to be able to lay a Merry Christmas on someone without its feeling like a political statement.

One night in a club in Boston, I tried the name Roger Duck. No laughs. The next night, I tried Orson Bean, putting together a pompous first name and a silly second name. I got laughs, so I decided to keep it.

I think God loves to hear little kids laugh at fart jokes. He didn't just make sunsets and bluebirds, He made hot babes. And dirty old men like me. That's the modest message I've set out to tell the world: you don't have to be Ned Flanders to be a Christian.

Miracles aren't necessarily good for everyone. The parting of the Red Sea, great for the Jews, not so hot for the Egyptian soldiers.

When I was a kid, FDR on the radio said, 'We have nothing to fear but fear itself.' We should be afraid of fear, or at least of acting out of it.

Left-wingers and right-wingers come together when they become extreme enough. The Nazi Party was called National Socialism, very similar to Stalin's Communism, with the addition of 'the Fatherland.'

The movies saved my life. I grew up in the great depression, the only child of a pair of star crossed lovers. My father lost his job. My mother drank. They fought. The movies were my escape.

I mean, acting is so easy! I love it and I'm good at it.

I'd lived through World War II and hadn't been able to wait to join the army as soon as I turned 18.

I was living in a four-story Manhattan townhouse with three full-time servants and silver to be polished, and I was doing too much. My kids were growing up without me, and suddenly I thought, 'I want some other stuff.' So I stopped working instead of cutting back, and went to Australia instead of Vermont.

TV has changed everything.

In New Jersey, judges have ruled that a same-sex couple or a single person applying to adopt must be given the same place in line as a married man and woman. I think that's bad for kids. This makes me homophobic? I'm in show business. Half the people in my life are gay.

I think people are afraid to be original.

I used to picture myself as the old guy eating the Early Bird Specials in the mall.

Anything that's done correctly is easy.

Hollywood is very divisive.

In '08, Barrack Obama was famously elected president. Even though I'd supported McCain and dreaded what I feared Barrack might do, I felt a surge of elation when the networks announced he'd won. I really hadn't thought the U.S. would go for an African-American for a decade or so.

War was a way of life for Americans in the early forties. Heroism was expected.

The people who get bored and want to get out of a long-run aren't the people who actually like to act.

Each morning and night I get down on my knees and thank God for my life and ask Him to make me grateful all the time instead of just most of the time.

I remember the glory days of film making. I used to go to the movies a lot.

Old people come up to me and say, 'Are you still alive? I used to watch you on 'To Tell The Truth' when I was a kid.'

I like to work. I like to go every night and play a part.

I did my teen-age years in World War II. War news was a constant. We kept the radio on in our house to hear Edward R. Murrow broadcasting from the rooftops of London, describing the blitz.