You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.

I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim ""Do not get others to do what you can do yourself."" My motto on the other hand is; ""Do not do that which others can do as well.

Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.

We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.

The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.

There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.

...those who are guilty of such sweeping criticisms [of the rich] do not know how many people would be made poor, and how much sufering would result, if wealthy people were to part all at once with any large proportion of their wealth in a way to disorganize and cripple great business enterprises.