“I’m glad I wrote the book to show what I found out about the [ Standard Oil Company]. I’m glad many people read my book and found out the truth.”

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

The common denominator for success is work.

Let the good work go on. We must ever remember we are refining oil for the poor man and he must have it cheap and good.

The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit, a reputation, character.

Homeopathy is a progressive and aggressive step in medicine.

Singleness of purpose is essential for success in life.

You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise – the more successful, the greater the prejudice.

The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won’t succeed, you must have a larger ambition.

We are coming to see that there should be no stifling of labor by capital, or of capital by labor; and also that there should be no stifling of labor by labor, or of capital by capital.

The person with big talk and big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts. I believe that the law was made for man and not man for the law; that government is the servant of the people and not their master.

I raised my prices since there wasn’t any competition it was just the smart thing to do. Why would I keep my prices up if their wasn’t anyone to beat?

I have nothing else to say other than I wasn’t corrupt, unfair, or greedy. I was smart when it came to making decisions for my company, and I wasn’t greedy. I gave to others in charity and donated money to fund programs. I have nothing else to say.

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.

Long ago I lost the joy in living. The only joy I have is in my giving.

If emotional pain or problems have cropped up in your life, you must insist on getting closure. Closure means you don’t carry the problem or the pain. You address the issue, then you slam shut the book and put it away.

It hurts that I was just one page in the book of your life. But what hurts more is knowing you’ll revise that chapter someday, and you’ll erase me completely.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.

People say to me so often, ‘Jane how can you be so peaceful when everywhere around you people want books signed, people are asking these questions and yet you seem peaceful,’ and I always answer that it is the peace of the forest that I carry inside.

Books are a narcotic.

The misconception is that standup comics are always on. I don’t know any really funny comics that are annoying and constantly trying to be funny all the time.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.