The virtue of democracy is that is has placed limits on the absoluteness of power.

The Greatest evils inflicted by man over the face of the Earth are wrought not by the self-seekers, the pleasure lovers, or the merely amoral, but by the fervent devotees of ethical principles.

The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of Saturnalia, a brief excursion from his way of life.

It is no more the function of government to impose a moral code than to impose a religious code. And for the same reason.

Be thankful when you find yourself worrying about the smallest things, for it often means there aren't any bigger things to truly worry about.

All that I was and the world that was mine are gone forever.

You often get a better hold upon a problem by going away from it for a time and dismissing it from your mind altogether.

Justice is such a fine thing that we cannot pay too dearly for it.

On average, when you ask someone to perform a task on a site, they cannot do it. It's not their fault; it's the designer's fault.

Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.

To the bottle! In infancy, the milk bottle; in our prime, the wine bottle; in our dotage, the pill bottle.

The willow turns his back on inclement weather. And if he can do it, we can do it.

As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves and rarely understood others. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

I believe that there is an explanation for everything, so, yes, I believe in miracles.