My mother was the making of me.

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work.

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

I am much less interested in what is called God's word than in God's deeds. All bibles are man-made.

I failed my way to success.

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.