One must eliminate the traditional and cling to the essential.

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.

... the deep experience of the lonely climb on the mountain of success brings a wealth beyond power to compute. To you all suffering is understandable and your heart opens wide in sympathy.

Life is beset by many annoyances, and those that stand out above all are the life- insurance and advertising agents.

Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty

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

Not only is orderliness an economy; it produces rest.