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

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

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.

For too many of us ease is far more soul-destroying than trouble.

One must eliminate the traditional and cling to the essential.

Not only is orderliness an economy; it produces rest.

When one is working out a problem ... life becomes duality. One's ego transacts the ordinary routine of things, as if the mind had an upper and lower story and the regular performance of the day's duties moved and motivated on the upper floor, while down below the all-absorbing problem toils silently, forcefully, toward its solution.