Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.

You grow up the day you have first real laugh - at yourself

Nothing is greater impediment to being on good terms with other than being ill at ease with yourself.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

Malicedrinketh its own poison.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.