"Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil."

"The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips."

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

"I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success."

"Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society."

"Bad men are full of repentance."

"He who hesitates is sometimes saved."

"A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption it is not a symbol, but a fraud."