Here is the prime condition of success: Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun on one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adopt every improvement, have the best machinery, and know the most about it.

Things do not change; we change.

I don’t know if I even have an aura, man. I just try to win.

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.