Don't expect to be paid a dollar an hour for your working hours when you then use your leisure hours as though they were not worth five cents a dozen.

Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.

Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion you want a man in whom good work has become a habit.

Those who do the most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand the least.

If the people are to be the final tribunal then they must vote for what is right rather than according to their own selfish interests, else we are treading the path of danger.

There ought to be more scrupulous honesty in big business men than in any other human relation. For big business requires teamwork on a gigantic scale.

As civilization progresses, we should improve our laws basically, not superficially. Many things that are lawful are highly immoral and some things which are moral are unlawful.

My idea of the real aristocrat is the master workman, no matter what his line of work may be.

A great business success was probably never attained by chasing the dollar, but is due to pride in one's work, the pride that makes business an art.

It is the studying that you do after your school days that really counts. Otherwise, you know only that which everyone else knows.

A great man is one who can have power and not abuse it.

Books didn’t make me wallow in darkness, darkness made me wallow in books.

Frightened people live in their own special hell.

He pointed past her shoulder. "We're surrounded by neighbors. Though once I have you inside, the walls are thick. You'll have to scream really loud for anyone to hear.

Have you ever felt in your inmost being, the conscience of others?' again she was trembling, the words were not releasing her. 'It's intolerable you know

In high school, I loved history. I also loved cosmography, algebra. Mexico is so rich in culture and history, and I have always enjoyed that.

I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me.

There are so many things I want to do! Some are personal. Some are professional.

Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.

When you see beauty anywhere, it's a reflection of yourself.

Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah,I drunk me a river since you tore me apart