"I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it"

"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves"

"Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work"

"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man"

"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage"

"Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need"

"The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today"

"I was married to Margaret Joan Howe in 1940. Although not a scientist herself she has contributed more to my work than anyone else by providing a peaceful and happy home"

"It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity"

"Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art"

"There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something"