I ask not for a larger garden, but for finer seeds.

Greatness consists not in the holding of some future office, but really consists in doing great deeds with little means and the accomplishment of vast purposes from the private ranks of life.

I ask not for a larger garden, but for finer seeds.

You can journey to the ends of the earth in search of success, but if you’re lucky, you will discover happiness in your own backyard.

Let us remember there is not a poor person in the United States who was not made poor by his own shortcomings.

Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them.

Money is power. Every good man and woman ought to strive for power, to do good with it when obtained. I say, get rich, get rich!