We do not need more knowledge, we need more character!

Of course, the accumulation of wealth cannot be justified as the chief end of existence.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

The budget idea, I may admit, is a sort of obsession with me. I believe in budgets. I want other people to believe in them. I have had a small one to run my own home; and besides that, I am the head of the organization that makes the greatest of all budgets, that of the United States Government. Do you wonder, then, that at times I dream of balance sheets and sinking funds?

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.