You can do anything if you have enthusiasm.

There are two ways of making yourself stand out from the crowd. One is by having a job so big you can go home before the bell rings if you want to. The other is by finding so much to do that you must stay after the others have gone. The one who enjoys the former once took advantage of the latter.

To lift farm drudgery off flesh and blood and lay it on steel and motors has been my most constant ambition

When you get a whole country - as did ours - thinking that Washington is a sort of heaven and behind its clouds dwell omniscience and omnipotence, you are educating that country into a dependent state of mind which augers ill for the future.

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.

The more you think, the more time you have.

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