The real conflict, if any exists, is between two industrial systems.

Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights.

The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account.

I have always been fully persuaded that, through co-operation, labor could become its own employer.

All legislative experiments in the way of making forcible distribution of the wealth produced in any country have failed.

Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce.

The right of each individual in any relation to secure to himself the full benefits of his intelligence, his capacity, his industry and skill are among the inalienable inheritances of humanity.

When money is controlled by a few it gives that few an undue power and control over labor and the resources of the country. Labor will have its best return when the laborer can control its disposal.

Money is the great tool through whose means labor and skill become universally co-operative.

Each individual member of a co-operative society works with that interest which is inseparable from the new position he enjoys. Each has an interest in the other.

Laboring men can perform for themselves the office of becoming their own employers.

No one can foretell the details in a day, we can only hope.

Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.

The secret of our emotions never lies in the bare object, but in its subtle relations to our own past.

Creators always have an advantage because they make the stuff we consume.

The idea that the harder you work, the better you're going to be is just garbage. The greatest improvement is made by the man or woman who works most intelligently.

So much of Jaws was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing.

Don't wait for change. You change.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

I think I would like to have lived in the 1930s and worn beautiful bias cut dresses all the time.

My personality does well with people who are deemed difficult. I don't know why it does but I just seem to get along with them. The more difficult the better.