Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute, but they all worship money

It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals, but there is seldom any money in them

Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard is a very simple one, and is this: we admire them, we envy them, for great qualities we ourselves lack. Hero worship consists in just that. Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do. We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.

If everybody was satisfied with himself there would be no heroes.

God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage

If I were a heathen, I would rear a statue to energy, and fall down and worship it