Every pleasure raises the tide of life; every pain lowers the tide of life.

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society.

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

All Socialism involves slavery.

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.

Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

When I rule the world, " screamed the Bogey, "all antiques will be destroyed! Antiques will be things of the past!

To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or musi

Friendship is not about ships—no matter how big and fancy and expensive the yacht is.

When you're not a mom, you can get up in the middle of the night, paint, sleep all morning... you can't do that when you have two children!

It's wonderful to be grateful. To have that gratitude well out from deep within you and pour out in waves. Once you truly experience this, you will never want to give it up.

For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.

Life is like The Muppet Show, but instead of Muppets there's anxiety.

To read and write will help you understand life. . .to sew and mend will help you survive it.

If God didn't want you to have it, He would never have let you see it.

Vulgarity is setting store by the things which are seen.