Ideas without execution are hallucinations.

The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.

My mother was the making of me.

I have had a lot of success with failure

I am a vegetarian as well as a passionate anti-alcoholic, because I can thus make better use of my brain.

Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.

It is a terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National Wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest charges, at the hands of men, who control the fictitious value of gold. Interest is the invention of Satan.