Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story.

In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught that we do not fully realize whence the trouble comes.

Keep your baby eyes (which are the eyes of genius) on what we don't know

The misgovernment of the American people is misgovernment by the American people.

Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.

You ask men in office to be honest; I ask them to serve the public.

The only thing worth having in an earthly existence is a sense of humor.

I have seen the future, and it works.

The spirit of graft and of lawlessness is the American spirit.

First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities, a spectacle for the nation.

It is privilege that causes evil in the world, not wickedness, and not men.

Of my conception I know only what you know of yours. It occurred in darkness and I was unconsenting... By some bleak alchemy what had been mere unbeing becomes death when life is mingled with it.

Designing for children carries a social responsibility beyond bright colors and scaled-down furnishings that only perceptive and informed grown-ups can understand.

Philosophers tell you what they think. Artists show you.

In my case, I learned that although God loves us, he doesn't grant us immunity from the consequences of our choices.

Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.

The art of plucking the goose without making it cry out has been developed to a high state of perfection at the hands of the war makers.

Consciousness, like a complex system of software, has thousands of levels of nested, self-accessing subroutines

If thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains. If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains.

There are experts in little things but there are no experts in big things. There are experts in this fact and that fact but there are no moral experts.

The first step in achieving prosperity and wealth is learning to appreciate what you already have.