“ If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own. ”

“ Quality means doing it right when no one is looking. ”

“ My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. ”

“ To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty. ”

“ Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live. ”

“ Tell me who your heroes are and I’ll tell you how you’ll turn out to be. ”

“ People always ask me where they should go to work, and I always tell them to go to work for whom they admire the most. ”

“ I learned to go into business only with people whom I like, trust, and admire. ”

“ If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent. ”

“ Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you don’t have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about it; it’s true. If you hire somebody without [integrity], you really want them to be dumb and lazy. ”

“ Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us. ”

“ If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well. ”