It is regrettable that people think about our monetary system, and of our economic structure, only in times of depression.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the aeroplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.

My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.

To know how to disguise is the knowledge of kings.

I would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great affection to them, they'll run the other way.

I have no beliefs of a religious kind.

I seem always to have two or three novels going at once. It takes me a long time to finish one.

There is in art the notion of less is more, which is to say, you don't torture a painting that has already confessed.

We all love the environment, but we have placed creatures above people. A rat is a rat.

We never know the issues others may be facing, and it isn't up to us to judge actions and behavior.

I think economics, content, and the ability to interact with content in new and different ways are what will drive the adoption of e-books.