Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

I am enthusiastic over humanity’s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuity. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top buoyant enough to keep you afloat that comes along makes a fortuitous life preserver. But this is not to say that the best way to design a life preserver is in the form of a piano top. I think that we are clinging to a great many piano tops in accepting yesterday’s fortuitous contrivings as constituting the only means for solving a given problem.

The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.

American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.

Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don't know whether or not we know that we don't know it.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.