The man of business knows that only by years of patient, unremitting attention to affairs can he earn his reward, which is the result, not of chance, but of well-devised means for the attainment of ends.

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

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

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.

Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate.

It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.

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