If my edge is dull, my sword is dull, and I don't want to fight another guy whose sword is dull. If you've got two steel swords going back and forth hitting each other, what's gonna happen? Both of them are going to get sharper. Everybody that's in the industry has lost their edge.

The advancement of agriculture, commerce and manufactures, by all proper means, will not, I trust, need recommendation. But I cannot forbear intimating to you the expediency of giving effectual encouragement as well to the introduction of new and useful inventions from abroad, as to the exertions of skill and genius in producing them at home; and of facilitating the intercourse between the distant parts of our country by a due attention to the Post Office and Post Roads.

The more we give importance to skill development, the more competent will be our youth.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.