It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.

One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.

If human progress had been more a matter of leadership we should be in Utopia to-day.

They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.

All the wisdom of the world consists of shouting with the majority.

They could do worse, and they undoubtedly will.

One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted.

The best system is to have one party govern and the other party watch.

A statesman is a successful politician who is dead.

The reason why the race of man moves slowly is because it must move all together.

Politics is mostly pill-taking.

Discovering an inner history requires listening – and often not to the first story told.

Call me crotchety, but I didn’t like being bossed around, especially before I’d injected caffeine into my system. Violet Parker

As we balance and become more and more identified with our spiritual nature, and the ego returns to its designated place, we again are led by the Spirit, but now in a conscious way.

Maybe my expectations for honesty are too high.

There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

I went to a private Jewish school before high school, and a lot of the kids had beautiful homes, but my parents don't really care about those kinds of things.

What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are accustomed to believe.

I believe clothing tell a story.

Writing is extremely personal, and that's the joy of it for me.