“Beware of him who promises something for nothing. Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures. Do not look for approval except the consciousness of doing your best.”

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament – disarmament follows peace.

Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.

Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular.

Financial storm definitely passed.

Society can progress if men’s labors show a profit – if they yield more than is put in. To produce at a loss must leave less for all to share.

Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.

Become more humble as the market goes your way.

No man can humiliate me or disturb me. I won’t let him.

Everyone is entitled to be wrong about their opinions, but no one has the right to be wrong about their facts.

A man sentenced to death obtained a reprieve by assuring the king he would teach his majesty’s horse to fly within the year – on the condition that if he didn’t succeed, he would be put to death at the end of the year. “Within a year,” the man explained later.

Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves.

Don’t try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can’t be done except by liars.

Now is always the hardest time to invest.

Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.

Beware of barbers, beauticians, waiters – or anyone – bringing gifts of ‘inside’ information or tips. Don’t try to be a jack of all investment. Stick to the field you know best.

Whatever task you undertake, do it with all your heart and soul. Always be courteous, never be discouraged.

Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.

My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.

Then we don’t have to celebrate it or let anybody know about it, simply let the mind have firm confidence in the goodness and keep going like this.

I often say to my assistants, “Never trust anybody,” but what I mean is that you should never trust someone else to do a job exactly the way you would want it done.

No. It’s simply a thorn. It doesn’t give suffering to anybody. If we step on it, we suffer immediately.

Whatever you do, be happy with you. Don’t conform. You are who you are, and you shouldn’t change that for anybody.

The best advice anybody could have given me was to keep getting up over and over again.

Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don’t think art is elite or mysterious. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics.