Sixty years is too brief a compass for man’s imagination. The incomplete joys of this world can never satisfy his heart.

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

Despotism often presents itself as the repairer of all the ills suffered, the support of just rights, defender of the oppressed, and founder of order.

It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by the laws, or in which political institutions can prove a substitute for common sense and public morality.

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.

I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run.

Friends are family members we have a choice over.

But for half a minute she wished it was a different sort of day, even though she knew that nothing good could come from wanting at the world. Even though she knew it was a wicked thing to do.

Love doesn't have a point. Love is the point.

If I'm experiencing a different thing every day and seeing a new environment every day, it can create a different mood or different feeling.

The essence of true education in one's life is to show the presence of mind, heart and soul to sense everything right.

So she [Eleanor Roosevelt] is an amazing First Lady. What other First Lady in U.S. history has ever written a book to criticize her husband's policies?

Of pleasures, those which occur most rarely give the most delight.

He who believes himself to be far advanced in the spiritual life has not even made a good beginning.

Maybe there isn't a meaning to life. Maybe there's only a meaning to living.

Past and Future are a duality of which Present is the reality. The now-moment alone is eternal and real.