If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust to be managed for the good of others.

I don't believe in God. My God is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

I began to learn what poverty meant. It was burnt in my heart then that my father had to beg for work and there came the resolve that I would cure that when I got to be a man.

The secret of happiness is renunciation.

I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.