All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

Wealth is not to feed our egos but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves.

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.'

Why should men leave great fortunes to their children? If this is done from affection, is it not misguided affection? Observation teaches that, generally speaking, it is not well for the children that they should be so burdened.

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

The greatest astonishment of my life was the discovery that the man who does the work is not the man who gets rich

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.