Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one's world.

Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.

...no matter how avid they themselves may be for praise and appreciation, people are often niggardly in giving it to others, however merited it is.

Of all the nations in the Western world, the United States, with the most money and the most time, has the fewest readers of books per capita. This is an incalculable loss. This, too, is one of the few civilized nations in the world which is unable to support a single magazine devoted solely to books.

It is curious how much more interest can be evoked by a mixture of gossip, romance and mystery than by facts.

We have reached a point today where labor-saving devices are good only when they do not throw the worker out of his job.

Obedience may have its uses, but it is no substitute for willing, uncoerced co-operation.