If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. 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.

Some men never master anything other than the details of a job. Others master the main idea back of the job.

Always remember that there is a law of compensation which operates just as infallibly as gravitation, and that victory goes at last where it ought to, and that this is just as true of individuals as of nations.

[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.

It is better to rely on yourself than on your friends.

A hotel isn't like a home, but it's better than being a house guest.