Reform is a work of time; a national taste, however wrong it may be, cannot be totally changed at once.
I have had a lot of success with failure
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. . . I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.
The secret of success is focus of purpose.
The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
Success depends on how many experiments you can fit into 24 hours
Interesting characters are troubled characters. The only problem I've had in my business is very few people - unfortunately, very vocal - confusing the difficult role that I play with me. I play these guys, but I'm not like them. I've been accused of bein.
I liked 'Diff'rent Strokes' up until about the last three or four years. I was bored.
No business which depends for existence on paying *less than living wages* to its workers has any right to continue in this country. . . By living wages, I mean more than the bare subsistence level - I mean the wages of a decent living.
I have heard and seen many examples of the cruelty that we are able to visit on one another during my time. . . I have also seen incredible forgiveness and compassion. Yes, each of us has the capacity for great evil. But for every act of evil there are a dozen acts of goodness in our world that go unnoticed. It is only because we believe that people should be good that we despair when they are not. Indeed, if people condoned the evil, we would be justified in losing hope. But most of the world does not. We know that we are meant for better.