“Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.”

Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.

Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

In trading/ investing it’s not about how much you make, but how much you don’t lose

Whatever you do, do it with all your heart and soul.

If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Don’t speculate unless you can make it a full time job.

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Gold has worked down from Alexander’s time… When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.

There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.

Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race.

We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.

Government is not a substitute for people, but simply the instrument through which they act. And if the individual fails to do his duty as a citizen, government becomes a very deadly instrument indeed.

Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil lies in the domain dealing with the principles of human dignity. We are now facing a problem more of ethics than of physics.