I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is no happiness, but suffering that I consider unnatural. It is not success, but calamity that I regard as the abnormal exception in Human Life.

To love money is to know and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and your passkey to trade your effort for the effort of the best among men.

She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.

There is no such thing as duty. If you know that a thing is right, you want to do it. If you don't want to do it - it isn't right. If it's right and you don't want to do it - you don't know what right is and you're not a man.

I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.

I am. I think. I will.

every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise.