Man's destiny lies half within himself, half without. To advance in either half at the expense of the other is literally insane.

Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.

One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.

If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.

Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion.

The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft.

Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

Education is not a function of any church or even of a city or a state; it is a function of all mankind.

Common man has at long last got himself so far out of gear with nature and his environment that he is beginning to see the shape of extinction, whether he recognizes it as such or not.

The businessmen have corrupted liberty by trying to propose it as a material quality.

Our history is every human history; a black and gory business, with more scoundrels than wise men at the lead, and more louts than both put together to cheer and follow.

Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life.

Hero is he alone who vies with powers supreme!

A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.

When we go slower, we are more patient and when we are more patient we have a choice in how we respond.

Not surprisingly, work-life moaners tend to be a phenomenon of below-average performers.

My energy level rises but I get calmer, if that's possible. What a lot of people tend to do is get real tight and get all psyched up and take themselves out of their game.

There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.

Keke Rosberg is as calculating as a slot machine.

Pure libertarianism believes that people will be generous and help each other. Well, they won't. I wish it were so, and I live that way.

Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go, Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!