The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.

Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

I believe the Universe is planned for good.

Fortitude: That quality of mind which does not care what happens so long as it does not happen to us.

Some one has said that we are moving so fast that when plans are being made to perform some great feat, these plans are broken into by a youth who enters and says, “I have done it."

Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.