New York is a different country. Maybe it ought to have a separate government. Everybody thinks differently, they just don't know what the hell the rest of the United States is.

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.

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.

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

No two men are just alike. Every new life is a new thing under the sun; there has never been anything like it before, and never will be again.

Wealth is nothing more or less than a tool to do things with. It is like the fuel that runs the furnace or the belt that runs the wheel - only a means to an end.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.