If you want work well done, select a busy man – the other kind has no time.
Wealth is an engine that can be used for power, if you are an engineer; but to be tied to the fly wheel of an engine is rather a misfortune.
Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
The valuable person in any business is the individual who can and will cooperate with others.
Don’t lose faith in humanity; think of all the people in the United States who have never played you a single nasty trick.
All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.
Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.
The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.
Those who create beauty are also they who possess it.
A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman is as bad as she dares.
A good front is half the battle in love or war.
Life is a compromise between fate and free will.
What people need and what they want may be very different.
If I supply you with a thought, you may remember it and you may not. But if I can make you think a thought for yourself, I have indeed added to your stature.
Grammar is the grave of letters.
If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.
As a career, the business of an orthodox preacher is about as successful as that of a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos cat through hell.
Success is voltage under control-keeping one hand on the transformer of your Kosmic Kilowatts.
A form of self-delusion.
The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel.