“Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.”

Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.

Hear you don’t believe I know enough to hold office. I wish you to understand that I am thinking about something or other most of the time.

There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.

Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.

The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.

Thinking and feeling that have to do with action in association with others is as much a social mode of behavior as is the most overt cooperative or hostile act.

As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.

Hunger not to have, but to be.

Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.

We may lead a horse to water we cannot make him drink; and that while we can shut a man up in a penitentiary we cannot make him penitent.

To me faith means not worrying.

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.

Insecurity cuts deeper and extends more widely than bare unemployment. Fear of loss of work, dread of the oncoming of old age, create anxiety and eat into self-respect in a way that impairs personal dignity.

The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.

Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.

The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.

When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.

Great results, can be achieved with small forces.

You don’t need to have extraordinary effort to achieve extraordinary results. You just need to do the ordinary, everyday things exceptionally well.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.

Nature may reach the same result in many ways.

You can have results or excuses. Not both.

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.