“I wasn’t prepared for this big room with clattering typewriters and teletype printers. You could hardly hear yourself think.”

In the City of God there will be a great thunder, Two brothers torn apart by Chaos, while the fortress endures, the great leader will succumb, The third big war will begin when the big city is burning.

Happiness is not a tangible thing, it’s a byproduct – a byproduct of achievement.

In business for yourself, but not by yourself.

It is no achievement to walk a tightrope laid flat on the floor.

There’s almost nothing you can’t accomplish if you set your mind to it.

When the exhausted Sun takes up his cycle then my prophecy and threats will be accomplished.

Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.

You’ll learn more about a road by traveling it than by consulting all the maps in the world.

Look after the customer and the business will take care of itself.

In my experience, good executives don’t make mistakes.

If my competitor were drowning I’d stick a hose in his mouth and turn on the water.

Perfection is very difficult to achieve, and perfection was what I wanted in McDonald’s. Everything else was secondary for me.

The organization cannot trust the individual; the individual must trust the organization.

There are things money can’t buy and hard work can’t win. One of them is happiness.

To an old leader will be born an idiot heir, weak both in knowledge and in war.

After there is great trouble among mankind, a greater one is prepared. The great mover of the universe will renew time, rain, blood, thirst, famine, steel weapons and disease. In the heavens, a fire seen.

Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.

Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.

So that’s my little ministry that the Big Man upstairs gave to me – a little ministry called love and happiness.

Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.

Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.

And there were these big bay windows, and there was the blue in the sky, and the sun on the trees, and it was drizzling.

I’ve been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either big band or I should do some jazz songs with a trio or quartet.

How am I one of the biggest fighters in the world and I get bigger paychecks outside of boxing?