Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged... 'Don't put all your eggs in one basket' is all wrong. I tell you 'put all your eggs in one basket, and then watch that basket.'

Pittsburgh entered the core of my heart when I was a boy and cannot be torn out.

It is trying to be other than one's self that unmans one. Be your own natural self and go ahead.

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.... In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed. ~Germaine Greer

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

There is little success where there is little laughter.

Don't be content with doing only your duty. Do more than your duty. It's the horse that finishes a neck ahead that wins the race.