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

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.

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

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.

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

I didn't lose anyone, for everyone that I lost was never really a loss, unless it was death well then I had to have words with God.

Measure your success by the number of people who envy you.

For there has never been a story nearly as tragic as the one of Frankenstein, except for that of Johnny Heart and his Francesca Valentine.

I think I have a repressed bent for the military, I like discipline without question, specific schedules and duties.

... there are not two realities, but only one reality, and that is the reality of God, which has become manifest in the Christ event/redemption and creation.

A nuclear armed Iran makes the world less safe, less stable, less secure.

I am not racked with self-loathing. Some issues of guilt and shame, but I'm a pretty good guy.

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

The day is divided into two important sections: Mealtimes and everything else.

I don't Botox. I've never Botoxed.