“We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.”

“A man, a real man, must never be an agent, a tool, or a gambler—acting for himself or for others—he must employ such. A real man—a financier—was never a tool. He used tools. He created. He led.”

“We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.”

“We're all like tools. Not only like tools, we are tools, tools of Time. We're worn into grooves by Time — by our habits. In the end, these grooves are going to show whether we've been second-rate or champions, each in his way, in dispatching the affairs of every day. By choosing our habits, we determine the grooves into which Time will wear us; and these are grooves that enrich our lives and make for ease of mind, peace, happiness - achievement.”

“The point is not how we use a tool, but how it uses us.”

“First we build the tools, then they build us.”

“Un-American activity cannot be prevented or routed out by employing un-American methods; to preserve freedom we must use the tools that freedom provides.”

“In durance vile here must I wake and weep,
And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.”

“The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives.”

“Man is a tool-using animal…Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.”