Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.

Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks. They fought their way to control by rebate and drawback, bribe and blackmail, espionage and price cutting, by ruthless efficiency of organization.

I came then to a conviction that has never left me: that there is too much for me to attend to in this mortal life without overspeculation on the immortal, that it is not necessary to my peace of mind or to my effort to be a decent and useful person, to have a definite assurance about the affairs of the next world.

The quest of the truth had been born in me - the most tragic and incomplete, as well as the most essential, of man's quests.

Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.

Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.

The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else -- men, guns, ammunition.