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.

There are no dead ends. There is always a way out. What you learn in one failure you utilize in your next success.

A scatterbrain is one who never has an unspoken thought.

You can't tell me you can make any system or country work with low wages and high prices, and high wages with high prices don't mean anything when the prices eat up the wages and don't leave anything over.

The only true test of values, either of men or of things, is that of their ability to make the world a better place in which to live.

Some people think they can; some think they can't. They are probably both right.

There are two extremes to be avoided: one is the attitude of contempt toward education, the other is the tragic snobbery of assuming that marching through an educational system is a sure cure for ignorance and mediocrity.