If the way of heaven be narrow, it is not long; and if the gate be straight, it opens into endless life.

The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.

Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.

Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause.

The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone.

Scratch a pessimist and you will often find a defender of privilege.

No one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter.

I have spent most of my life most happily making plans for others to carry out.

Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to proportion His blessings to our alms.

The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.

Everyone understands that in a modern economy - transparency, accountability, a working justice system are part of having a functioning, modern society.

Patience is a crucial but rare investment commodity.

The city is like poetry; it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines.

Brothers McMullen' would not be picked up for theatrical distribution now.

Next week, or next month, or next year I will kill myself. But I might as well last out my month's rent, which has been paid up.

Tom [McCarthy] said to me, "Buddy, you got an Oscar nomination through that haircut! That's the real feat, man."

People are dying who haven't had that opportunity to say yes to the Lord.

Morality has nothing to do with such a man as I am.

Something is born, comes into being, something that did not exist before - which is as good a definition of creativity as we can get.

The God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?