No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty . . . . Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys basic people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

What I say today everybody will say tomorrow, though they will not remember who put it into their heads. Indeed they will be right for I never remember who puts things into my head : it is the Zeitgeist.

The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy; and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes.

Liberty is the breath of life to nations.

Start with the belief that your life can indeed be changed, and that you have the power to change it.