We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy - sun, wind and tide. ... I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

Accomplishing something provides the only real satisfaction in life.

My mother was the making of me.

People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project (Muscle Shoals Dam) nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more money from the United States than will the People who supply all the material and do all the work. This is the terrible thing about interest.

Failure is the most effective technique to optimize strategic planning, implementation and processes.

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.