Johnny Carson

"The secret to success is to remember that life is a classroom. Every experience teaches you something important."

"Dreams without goals remain dreams and ultimately lead to disappointment."

"One thing I have learned over the years about the public is they don't know the difference between quality and garbage."

"Carson's rule: Never underestimate the intelligence of the audience or overestimate their knowledge."

"I'm from Nebraska. What do you expect? Someone has to be from there."

"The art of acting is dealing with the terrible knowledge of what you are."

"I have no friends in the truest sense. Friendship requires vulnerability."

"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

"If you want to succeed, you must be willing to fail spectacularly and often."

"The future is a thing which every man reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour."

"Television is the medium through which most Americans learn everything they know that isn't true."

"Happiness is a consciousness of a warm puppy and a comfortable bed."

"The more followers you have, the fewer genuine friends you possess."

"I believe that man is here to entertain himself until he dies."

"Life is what happens while you're making other plans."

"Failure is not the end; it's just where the good stories begin."

"The mark of intelligence is the ability to laugh at yourself."

"We are all crazy in different ways, and it's the people who pretend to be sane that really worry me."

"Tomorrow is just another day to get things wrong."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."

"A great power and a great responsibility come with an audience's trust."

"Every human being is engaged in a desperate struggle to disguise himself from himself."

"The beginning of wisdom is admitting you know nothing."

"Change is the only constant, so you might as well get comfortable being uncomfortable."

"Fear is the mind-killer, so face it early and often."

"Patience is not the absence of action but the right timing of action."

"Money is a good servant but a terrible master."

"Your health is your wealth, and once you lose it, no amount of money can buy it back."

"Kindness is the language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see."

"Gratitude is the most honest of all the emotions."