Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

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.'

TEAMWORK: the fuel that allows common people attain uncommon results.

I demand riches in definite terms; I have a definite plan for acquiring riches;I am engaged in carrying out my plan, and I am giving an equivalent,in useful service, of the value of those riches I demand.

It was from my own early experience that I decided there was no use to which money could be applied so productive of good to girls and boys who have good within them and ability and ambition to develop it as the founding of a public library.

If it is right that schools should be maintained by the whole community for the well-being of the whole, it is right also that libraries should be so maintained.