First something is a great idea, then it becomes a cause, then it becomes a business and finally it becomes a racket.

We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.

It is to escape the responsibility for failure that the weak so eagerly throw themselves into grandiose undertakings.

The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.

Nothing so bolsters our self-confidence and reconciles us with ourselves as the continuous ability to create; to see things grow and develop under our hand, day in, day out.

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.

Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.