You make your own luck. Luck is the residue of design.

I'm sort of the comic relief after a hard day at work. My message is that it's OK to relax

You cannot talk to people successfully if they think you are not interested in what they have to say or you have no respect for them.

My father died when I was nine and a half. We were on relief for two years. They call it welfare now, but it was relief then... I never forgot the generosity of New York.

I'm having as much fun today as I did when I made $55 a week, because it is as much fun

We met in an airport in Las Vegas, Harrison Ford and I, and he said, "I just finished a movie called 42. I play Branch Rickey. There's this kid in it playing Jackie Robinson. I think it's a pretty good movie."

The secret of success is an absolute ungovernable curiosity.