Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.

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

The more difficult a problem becomes, the more interesting it is.

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

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.

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

There is little success where there is little laughter.