"Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth, the tyranny of plutocracy."

"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

"Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!"

"Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!"

"Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare"

"If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name."

"We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company."

"A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular."

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on."

"Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship... the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth."

"I am eternally grateful.. for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on."

"Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world."