“All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.”

The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.

Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.

All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody – benefiting humanity – and the feeling of success comes from the consciousness of this.

Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.

Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.

Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear.

What people need and what they want may be very different.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.

Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.

Man’s greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

Most people like hard work, particularly when they’re paying for it.

Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.