History is more or less bunk.
Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
Do your best every time … because by doing a thing well you build something valuable into yourself.
The human mind is a channel through which things-to-be are coming into the realm of things-that-are.
The only history that is worth a tinker’s damn is the history we make today.
Political parties are like poets, born, not made.
An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
Unless you have courage, a courage that keeps you going, always going, no matter what happens, there is no certainty of success. It is really an endurance race.
What we call evil, it seems to me, is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark.
The time will come when man will know even what is going on in the other planets and perhaps be able to visit them.
The only motive that can keep politics pure is the motive of doing good for one’s country and its people.
It is always possible to do a thing better the second time.
Money is worth what it will help you to produce or buy and no more.
We teach children to save their money. As an attempt to counteract thoughtless and selfish expenditure, that has value. But it is not positive; it does not lead the child into the safe and useful avenues of self-expression or self-expenditure. To teach a child to invest and use is better than to teach him to save.
Every man is better for a period of work under the open sky.
A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
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