Here was a corporation behaving like a monster though the individuals who owned its stock were human cultivated men. A corporation has no soul.

no war really comes unexpectedly. The drums are beating long before a single shot is fired.

Money is what you'd get on beautifully without if only other people weren't so crazy about it.

[On social change:] What I say is that if one country is annexed by another, its nationality is not changed overnight. Social processes are often very, very slow.

We were good reformers, but we weren't good enough. We elected a candidate and then, busy with our own affairs, we left him hanging in mid-air. Reformers are such part-time pillars of society!

...they're here for a moment and then gone. At best they have "liftoff" power, or, to use a different analogy, they are like periodic flashes of lightning on a dark road, with no guiding power.

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else.

What are men celebrating? They are all on a committee of arrangements, and hourly expect a speech from somebody. God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator.

The person who does only what he must when he is in the mood or when it's convenient isn't going to be successful.

You cannot intellectualize God, you cannot, He is beyond your intellect, you cannot understand Him through your intellect. If you have to understand Him you have to become the spirit.

The loss of a sexual life is one of the worst things about getting really old. The worst thing.

Questions have arisen about the policing of science. Who is responsible for the policing? My answer is: all of us.

When I wake up in the morning, I've got a coffee and I'm in my own home studio just chilling... I make happy music.

There's a huge crowd out there that basically will go nuts recommending to every coach on the planet, "Hey, coach, I've been playing with the analytics. I think you should do X, Y, and Z."

I don't usually experience that because there are few people who intimidate me, but Woody was one of them.