Mozart, who was buried in a pauper’s grave, was one of the greatest successes we know of, a man who in his early thirties had poured out his inexhaustible gift of music, leaving the world richer because he had passed that way. To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.

I have always felt that it was important that everyone who was a worker join a labor organization.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.

I consider those are rich who are doing something they feel worthwhile and which they enjoy doing.

So, after all, we are but puppets, creatures of our fate, not commanding it but being molded by it.