An American credit card is just as good in Europe as American gold used to be.

If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.

Is a man satisfied, merely because he is perfumed himself, to mingle with a malodorous crowd?

The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.

No republic can long exist unless a substantial equality in the wealth of citizens prevails.

Equal wealth and equal opportunities of culture have simply made us all members of one class.

Competition, which is the instinct of selfishness, is another word for dissipation of energy, while combination is the secret of efficient production.

Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us.

The nation guarantees the nurture, education, and comfortable maintenance of every citizen from the cradle to the grave.

Hold the period of youth sacred to education, and the period of maturity, when the physical forces begin to flag, equally sacred to ease and agreeable relaxation.

I first saw the light in the city of Boston in the year 1857.

I have a very down-to-earth father. My wife is an actress and famous herself is more down-to-earth than anyone I know.

I'd love to be popular in Barcelona. That sounds like a fun job

It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.

Thank God for unanswered prayers.

The more you defend in the face of a critical audience, the more you polarize.

Making an album can be like being pregnant: you want to pop that thing out and show everybody!

I do not know what I regret. I sit with my pen, and cannot find an end to that sentence.

I'm a Christian - I really don't believe in UFOs.

The central icon of Catholic Christianity is mother and child. That motif is so deep in not just our human experience but in our animal, biological past.

I often tell my clients they should do at least 30 percent of all their reading outside their own field. This will give them perspective and knowledge that will make them more interesting.