I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker. The example of great and pure individuals is the only thing that can lead us to noble thoughts and deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and irresistibly invites abuse. Can anyone imagine M anyone imagine Moses, Jesus or Gandhi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie?

Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.

No one is listening until you make a mistake.

Like as a feareful partridge, that is fledd From the sharpe hauke which her attacked neare, And falls to ground to seeke for succor theare, Whereas the hungry spaniells she does spye, With greedy jawes her ready for to teare.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, but the unreasonable man tries to adapt the world to him--therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.

Only two great groups of animals, men and ants, indulge in highly organized mass warfare.

Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

If I do, fillip me with a three-man beetle. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2.

For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?

Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss. -Black Elk.

Protection and patriotism are reciprocal.

The celebration of unbounded individualism means, beyond some point, the acceptance of force- either private or public .

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

With clothes the new are best, with friends the old are best.

I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.