“A man's reading program should be as carefully planned as his daily diet, for that too is food, without which he cannot grow mentally.”

“Promiscuous reading is necessary to the constituting of human nature. The attempt to keep out evil doctrine by licensing is like the exploit of that gallant man who thought to keep out the crows by shutting the park gate.”

“Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.”

“The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do.”

“Anything in life worth having is worth working for.”

“If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.”

“Wealth is not to feed our egos but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves.”