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

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.

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

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

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

Believe so brightly that everyone sees the beauty in believing.

Single ladies, the only thing we need to be rescued from is the notion that we need to be rescued.

Indeed, in Russia there is a terrible poverty of facts, and a terrible abundance of reflections of all sorts.

Deep in my heart subsides the infrequent word, And there dies slowly throbbing like a wounded bird.

I always try to be different. I always want to surprise myself.

You are already perfect, only you don't know it. Learn to know yourself and you will discover wonders.

Fire and ice, somehow existing together without destroying each other. More proof that I belonged with him.

I would say Im an optimist by nature.

If a man continually blusters, if he lacks civility, a big stick will not save him from trouble, and neither will speaking softly avail, if back of the softness there does not lie strength, power.

Truth happens to an idea