Most people think that faith means believing something; oftener it means trying something, giving it a chance to prove itself

Labor unions are the worst thing that ever struck the earth because they take away a man's independence.

Whatever your goal in life, the beginning is knowledge and experience

Understand the difference between being at work and working.

Life is work, and everything you do is so much more experience. Sometimes you work for wages, sometimes not, but what does anybody make but a living? And whatever you have you must either use or lose.

My opposition to war is not based upon pacifist or non-resistant principles. It may be that the present state of civilization is such that certain international questions cannot be discussed; it may be that they have to be fought out. But the fighting never settles the question. It only gets the participants around to a frame of mind where they will agree to discuss what they were fighting about.

It is regrettable that people think about our monetary system, and of our economic structure, only in times of depression.