Give me snuff, whiskey, and Swedes, and I will build a railroad to hell.

Most men who have really lived have had, in some share, their great adventure. This railway is mine.

The wealth of the country, its capital, its credit, must be saved from the predatory poor as well as the predatory rich, but above all from the predatory politician.

Work, hard work, intelligent work, and then more work.

If you review the commercial history, you will discover anyone who controls oriental trade will get hold of global wealth.

The passenger train is like the male teat - neither useful nor ornamental.

Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine.

To be truly stylish (as opposed to merely "in style", which is the opposite) is to be unabashedly one's self, without reference to the fashions and demands of a sweltering crowd.

It is by your own that you have to learn a lesson and they by themselves so that they will blame you not.

Someone who's awake in the middle of the night is a soul consciousness when everyone else is asleep, and that creates a feeling of solitude in poetry that I very much like.

History tells us that the threat to prosperity is not debt but socialism.

Without a standard there is no logical basis for making a decision or taking action.

If we ever meet in real life, we can have a conversation. But you should go and live your real life and I'll go and live mine.

Efforts to preserve all industries will lower the national standard of living.

Wouldn't it be a beautiful world if just 10 percent of the people who believe in the power of love would compete with one another to see who could do the most good for the most people?

Thinking about what songs are coming next instead of just relaxing, breathing and playing from my heart. Sometimes it can get to be almost like the enemy.