Profits are part of the mechanism by which society decides what it wants to see produced.

Growth is a substitute for equality of income. So long as there is growth there is hope, and that makes large income differentials tolerable.

Freedom is like health, it is taken for granted while one has it. One becomes aware of it when it has gone.

Power is the great enemy of freedom

Joyful peace pervades my being for all time.

Groups create supernatural beings not to explain the universe but to order their societies.

There's something romantic about it, of course, in the way only other people's lives can be.

Good food is healthy food. Food is supposed to sustain you so you can live better, not so you can eat more. Some people eat to live, and some people live to eat.

I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?

I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.

Along with currency manipulation, the New Deal introduced to Americans the spectacle of Fascist dictation to business, labor, and agriculture.

If you think you are big, you will become small. If you are willing to become an absolute nothing, you will become larger than creation and Creator.

I’ve never really been contained to just one style. My listening choice has always been so mixed up.

[Arab peoples] are stuck back thousands of years and they think they're going to get out with a TV set.