In order to stand well in the eyes of the community it is necessary to come up to a certain somewhat indefinite conventional standard of wealth.

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.

In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.

Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister.

The thief or swindler who has gained great wealth by his delinquency has a better chance than the small thief of escaping the rigorous penalty of the law.

Only individuals with an aberrant temperament can in the long run retain their self-esteem in the face of the disesteem of their fellows.

The possession of wealth confers honor; it is an invidious distinction.

The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery

Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.

Socialism is a dead horse.

All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.

Community development has a long history of innovation and learning from experience.

I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.

We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.

How do you make a dimmed light bright again? Remove the interference. How do you increase health in a dis-eased person? The same way!

My uniform [in Star Wars] was cool. Not much else I can think of at the moment. You know, you don't know the enormity of these kinds of films until well after you're done.

We're not perfect, we're not clean cut. We're just trying to be ourselves.

Rest in natural great peace, this exhausted mind, beaten helpless by karma and neurotic thought, like the relentless fury of the pounding waves in the infinite ocean of samsara.

As I live in awareness of, growth in, and gratitude for mercy, my life will bring glory to Him

And the end and the beginning were always there Before the beginning and after the end.

I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.