Wealth is not to feed our egos but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves.

The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do.

Do not think a man has done his full duty when he has performed the work assigned him. A man will never rise if he does only this. Promotion comes from exceptional work.

Strength is derived from unity. The range of our collective vision is far greater when individual insights become one.

I spent the first half of my life making money and the second half of my life giving it away to do the most good and the least harm.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade.