There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start a new.

Success is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration!

I try not to invent things that people don't need.

I think that Ingersoll had all the attributes of a perfect man, and, in my opinion, no finer personality ever existed. Judging from the past, I cannot help thinking that the intention of the Supreme Intelligence that rules the world is to ultimately make such a type of man universal.

Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability.... We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.

Sleep is like a drug. Take too much at a time and it makes you dopey. You lose time and opportunities.

So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake ... Religion is all bunk.