A dining room table with children's eager hungry faces around it, ceases to be a mere dining room table, and becomes an altar.

People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.

Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach, but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door.

New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States.

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Statistics are the heart of democracy.

The people whom the sons and daughters find it hardest to understand are the fathers and mothers, but young people can get on very well with the grandfathers and grandmothers.

If you want to understand democracy spend less time in the library with Plato and more time in the buses with people.

Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door.

Think, Believe, Dream, and Dare.

Forget the secrets of success, use Cosmic Ordering instead.

When you die, your culture takes you in, and then, if you've given enough, your place is near the centre.

Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.

When you borrow trouble you give your peace of mind as security.

They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?

The person whose face is between your legs is gonna get lockjaw.

Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya.

Im not attracted to expensive things.

I definitely have a piece of tape over my computer at home.