Danny Thomas

“Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.”

“No child should die in the dawn of life.”

“All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why.”

“I'd rather have a B-picture with an A-theme than an A-picture with a B-theme.”

“My father told me, 'Don't you ever do anything that you wouldn't want to see on the front page of your hometown newspaper.'”

“Without a sense of humor, you are a candle in a closed room.”

“A man has to be Joe McCarthy to be called ruthless. All a woman has to do is put you on hold.”

“There are two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.”

“I founded St. Jude's to be a place where no child is ever turned away because of their race, religion or their family's ability to pay.”