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

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.

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

Maybe curiosity did kill your cat. But it wouldn't hurt to keep an eye on the neighbor's rottweiler just the same.

There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge

Adaptability is about the powerful difference between adapting to cope and adapting to win.

One of the things that's kind of persistent is that I am the model on the cover of Tom Waits' album, Small Change.

But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it.

The Conservative Party is a tax cutting party or it is nothing.

Good bands you can kind of lose, then come back and realize they're still good.

Cockfighting has always been my idea of a great sport -- two armed entrées battling to see who'll be dinner.

The Ku Klux Klan never dies. They just stop wearing sheets because sheets cost too much.

Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble.