The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability

[on education] It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.

Deliver me from all evildoers that talk nothing but sickness and failure. Grant me the companionship of men who think success and men who work for it. Loan me associates who cheerfully face the problems of a day and try hard to overcome them. Relieve me of all cynics and critics. Give me good health and the strength to be of real service to the world, and I'll get all that's good for me, and will what's left to those who want it.

The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

Unnecessary hustle is one of the American follies. We hustle at both work and play, and consequently enjoy neither to the utmost.

Nothing will ruin an interesting intelligent argument more quickly than the arrival of a pretty girl.