It would be madness to let the purposes or the methods of private enterprise set the habits of the age of atomic energy.

A State divided into a small number of rich and a large number of poor will always develop a government manipulated by the rich to protect the amenities represented by their property.

Civilization means, above all, an unwillingness to inflict unnecessary pain ... those of us who heedlessly accept the commands of authority cannot yet claim to be civilized men.

Those who know the normal life of the poor... will realize well enough that without economic security, liberty is not worth having.

The number of substitutes for fine and clean thinking the world provides positively gnaws at one's vitals.

No citizen enjoys genuine freedom of religious conviction until the state is indifferent to every form of religious outlook from Atheism to Zoroastrianism.

A healthy loyalty is not passive and complacent, but active and critical.

Every State is known by the rights it maintains.

Without equality, I say, there cannot be liberty.

If it weren't for the law, I would steal books; if it weren't for my purse, I would buy them.

The only real security for social well-being is the free exercise of men's minds.

Art is a gun and medicine at the same time.

All the seeming "coincidences" .... were actually God catching me in his arms.

Pity. What a useless emotion when you don't act on it. Pity is supposed to trigger compassion.

If he could only prevent himself growing up! He did not want to be a man.

The finger in the jar atop the entertainment center served as a reminder: death was far kinder than the fate Juanita could have suffered at the hands of that other man.

I've never been to a dinner party where everyone at the dinner table didn't say something funny.

I was obsessed with clowns. My dad had to get rid of them. I thought there were clowns under my bed for years.

Millions of people in nearly 80 countries still live in fear of landmines and explosive remnants of war, which take an unacceptable toll on lives and limbs, and people's livelihoods

I would say that financial markets are very inefficient, and capable of extremes of being completely dysfunctional.

You know, I think I'm the worst player to talk to about statistics.