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

There is a subtle danger in a man thinking that he is "fixed" for life. It indicates that the next jolt of the wheel of progress is going to fling him off.

Show me who makes a profit from war, and I'll show you how to stop the war.

A dollar put into a book and a book mastered might change the whole course of a boy's life. It might easily be the beginning of the development of leadership that would carry the boy far in service to his fellow men.

Nothing can be made except by makers, nothing can be managed except by managers. Money cannot make anything and money cannot manage anything.

Don't expect people to respect you for what you are "planning" to do.

The public should always be wondering how it is possible to give so much for the money.