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

There is no use whatsoever in trying to help people who do not help themselves.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

Success is the power to acquire whatever one demands of life without violating the rights of others.

I am no longer cursed by poverty because I took possession of my own mind, and that mind has yielded me every material thing I want, and much more than I need. But this power of mind is a universal one, available to the humblest person as it is to the greatest.

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 wish to have as my epitaph: 'Here lies a man who was wise enough to bring into his service men who knew more than he.'