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.

Education is not something to prepare you for life; it is a continuous part of life.

Any man can learn anything he will, but no man can teach except to those who want to learn.

Greatest thing in life is experience. Even mistakes have value.

Where people work longest and with least leisure, they buy the fewest goods. No towns were so poor as those of England where the people, from children up, worked fifteen and sixteen hours a day. They were poor because these overworked people soon wore out -- they became less and less valuable as workers. Therefore, they earned less and less and could buy less and less.

The time is coming when man will be able to determine the length of his lifespan by controlling his diet.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.