"To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business."

"No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist."

"Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying."

"The meek shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights."

"A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease."

"Nature teaches us a valuable lesson: the greatest battles are fought within."

"Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution."

"There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel there is only one home to the life of a tortoise there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter?"