I'm pushing 60 years of age...and that's enough exercise for me.

What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. . . . The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. . . . When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world.

I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the next surest thing for an Indian was soap and education. Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run; because a half-massacred Indian may recover, but if you educate him and wash him, it is bound to finish him some time or other.

The world doesn't owe you anything. It was here first.

The only people that a bank will loan money to is the very people who don't need it.

Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence- stuffed and in a museum.

The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.