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.

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

There is nothing that robs a righteous cause of its strength more than a millionaire's money.

Success can be attained in any branch of labor. There’s always room at the top in every pursuit.

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

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

You develop millionaires the way you mine gold. You expect to move tons of dirt to find an ounce of gold, but you don't go into the mine looking for the dirt-you go in looking for the gold.