There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving.

Common sense is not so common.

I had a New Year's kiss once. But it was like, 'Let's start the year off together,' and then we wound up breaking up the night after!

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

Without labor nothing prospers.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

Success is dependent on effort.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.

It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something.

Dick Clark will be truly missed. We will carry on his legacy every New Year's Eve.

You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.

There is one person who sends me three cards every year. One on New Year's, one for my birthday and the third that marks the anniversary of my flight into space.