"Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money. It lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort."

"Oh for a book and a shady nook..."

"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."

"This became a credo of mine...attempt the impossible in order to improve your work."

"Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity."

"If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting."

"When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary."

"Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought."

"I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate."

"Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age."

"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for."

"[The television is] an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home."