Scratch a pessimist and you will often find a defender of privilege.

The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.

Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.

Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause.

The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone.

No one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter.

I have spent most of my life most happily making plans for others to carry out.

Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to proportion His blessings to our alms.

The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.

If the way of heaven be narrow, it is not long; and if the gate be straight, it opens into endless life.

Through darkness diamonds spread their richest light.

His ego was as big as an elephant

We all need to believe in something, a dream that gives us optimism and faith.

Commerce is greedy. Ideology is blood-thirsty.

And that's it; that's why I want to teach; that's the one and only compensation: to make a permanent difference in the life of a child.

The downside of aging is a slower metabolism and achy joints.The upside is a knowledge of self that prevents one from behaving like a baboon.

Every day we have a special reason to make a good celebration! And that reason is our very existence!

This is our moment. This is our destiny. It's a good destiny

Being receptive, being able to listen openly and well, is a crucial skill for creative problem-solving.

An acquaintance with the muses, in the education of youth, contributes not a little to soften manners. It gives a delicate turn to the imagination and a polish to the mind.