I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.

The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word.

I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.

A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.

I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.

The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency.

The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.

Love works miracles in stillness.

Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.

Art is pattern informed by sensibility.

Great changes in the destiny of mankind can be effected only in the minds of little children.

You want a child because it is a link in the bridge that you are building between the past and the future, a cantilever that holds you, so that you are not alone.

When success is uniform, the celebration becomes universal. Of which use is it to you to rejoice at the time your friend cries?

He thought of hanging himself, to pass the time.

Ride at any fence hard enough, and the chances are you'll get over. The harder you ride the heavier the fall, if you get a fall; but the greater the chance of your getting over.

There's a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.

To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.

No one suggests that writing about science will turn the entire world into a model of judgment and creative thought. It will be enough if they spread the knowledge as widely as possible.

It's always easier in the Senate minority to maintain unity.

It was amazing how many friends you could make by being bad at things, provided you were bad enough to be funny.

I kind of put myself in this mindset where time doesn't really exist that much. There is no past or future. I just try to stay really in the present.