Three rules: I do not eat too much; I do not worry too much; and, if I do my best, I believe that what happens, happens for the best.

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.

I did not say history was bunk. It was bunk to me . . I did not need it very bad.

There is no such thing as no chance.

As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty and special privilege grow

I am in exact accord with the belief of Thomas Edison that spirit is immortal, that there is a continuing center of character in each personality. But I don't know what spirit is, nor matter either. I suspect they are forms of the same thing. I never could see anything in this reputed antagonism between spirit and matter. To me this is the most beautiful, the most satisfactory from a scientific standpoint, the most logical theory of life.

success is 99% failure