Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

We make war that we may live in peace.

To quench my longing I bent myself low by the streams of the spirits of Peace that flow in that magical wood in the land of sleep.

Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops. 

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible. 

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Just because crime is not established in the court of law doesn’t mean a murderer is innocent.

Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.

Anchor keeps the ship in one place. But that is not what ships are made for!

If you can dream it, you can do it.