Take away my people, but leave my factories and soon grass will grow on the factory floors......Take away my factories, but leave my people and soon we will have a new and better factory.

My hopes were high, and I looked every day for some change to take place. What it was to be I knew not, but that it would come I felt certain if I kept on. One day the chance came.

The rare individuals who unselfishly try to serve others have an enormous advantage-they have little competition.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

The public only knows one side of [Mark Mark Twain] - the amusing part. Little does it suspect that he was a man of strong convictions upon political and social questions and a moralist of no mean order.

The secret of happiness is renunciation.

The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.