Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him than all the others.

Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race. Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions. We must embrace international cooperation or international disintegration. Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil lies in the domain dealing with the principles of human dignity. We are now facing a problem more of ethics than of physics.

When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that one can get something for nothing.

There are no such things as incurables. There are only things for which man has not found a cure.

Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Two things are bad for the heart - running up stairs and running down people.

To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.