If the people really set their minds on anything it is impossible to prevent their getting what they want.

We teach children to save their money. As an attempt to counteract thoughtless and selfish expenditure, that has value. But it is not positive; it does not lead the child into the safe and useful avenues of self-expression or self-expenditure. To teach a child to invest and use is better than to teach him to save.

Any decision you make isn't worth a tinkers damn until you have formed the habit of making and keeping it.

The object of education is not to fill a man's mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.

It is a striving to attain the best. To throttle it would mean to stop all progress. Certain men do not need to compete. They are pioneers.

That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.

With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end.