When one is altering the face of the universe one cannot remember small helpful acts.

I simply don't believe in failure. In itself, it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail.

Work becomes at once a delight and a tyrant. For even when the time comes and you can relax, you hardly know how.

When one is altering the face of the universe one cannot remember small helpful acts.

There is romance in coffee. It comes from the ends of the earth, and goes to the far corners of man's habitation.

Perhaps nothing in all my business has helped me more than faith in my fellow man. From the very first I felt confident that I could trust the great, friendly public. So I told it quite simply what I thought, what I felt, what I was trying to do. And the response was quick, sure, and immediate.

... hunger and cold, ill-health and pain are nothing. They pass. The thing that remains is ignorant criticism, well-meaning but futile advice, the contempt of a subordinate, the feelings of the underdog.