To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.

We have always found that, if the principles were right, the area over which they were affected did not matter. Size is only a matter of the multiplication table.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.

What we call evil, it seems to me, is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark.

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.

If I lose a billion dollars, I will have it back in less than five years.

The air is full of ideas. They are knocking you in the head all the time. You only have to know what you want, then forget it, and go about your business. Suddenly, the idea will come through. It was there all the time.