The mining industry might make wealth and power for a few men and women, but the many would always be smashed and battered beneath its giant treads.

I write to reach people's common sense and intelligence, to show them that if they unite they can make a different world possible.

I'm overflowing with stories, delighted and quite mad with the beauty and tragedy of them.

Don't sacrifice your life to work and ideals. The most important things in life are human relations. I found that out too late.

Problems forges you to be more refined person.

Love is more than just a pretty face with a nice personality.

The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.

And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave.

The height of success is when you break your business, that is what I say! Just when you think things are really really going well that's the time to change.

I have often lost myself in the sea, ears full of newly cut flowers, tongue full of love and agony.

You can lock up from a thief, but you can't from a liar.

It is good breeding alone that can prepossess people in your favor at first sight, more time being necessary to discover greater talents.

The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of government.