The best way to predict your future is to create it.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

Genius is not inspired. Inspiration is perspiration.

The more people tell you it's not possible, that it can't be done, the more you should be absolutely determined to prove them wrong. Treat the word "impossible" as nothing more than motivation.

I am not ashamed to confess that twenty five years ago I was a hired laborer, mauling rails, at work on a flat-boat - just what might happen to any poor man's son.

No other human occupation opens so wide a field for the profitable and agreeable combination of labor with cultivated thought, as agriculture.