To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Weak leaders use others to defend them. The strong fight their own battles.

Those who seek realities in this world of illusions are likely to be disappointed at times.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical things to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

Religion is all bunk.

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

Hell, there are no rules here - we are trying to accomplish something.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.