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

While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it insures the survival of the fittest in every department. We accept and welcome, therefore, as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment, the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few, and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential for the future progress of the race.

Mutual ignorance breeds mutual distrust.

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

The Republic may not give wealth or happiness, she has not promised these. It is the freedom to pursue these, not their realization, we can claim.

Any idea that is held in the mind, that is emphasized, that is either feared or revered, will begin at once to cloth itself in the most convenient and appropriate form available.

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