There is a future that makes itself and a future we make. The real future is composed of both.

To think is to say 'no.'

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.

The most difficult thing in the world is to say thinkingly what everybody says without thinking.

One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage.

Two things are aesthetically perfect in the world - the clock and the cat.

What is a thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.

People who are upset about something ruminate on it whenever they get a chance; they are constantly drawn back to their own unhappy tale as if it were a horror story left open on a table.

We prove what we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove.

Wouldn't a sailor laugh at you if you told him that the whole crossing depends on the first turn of the helm?

If religion is only human, and its form is man's form, it follows that everything in religion is true.

I succeed in almost everything I do. My secret is persistence.

If you can cope the pride when winning, then you can confront despair when lose.

When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we in essence accept that the state owns our bodies.

During intellectual droughts one shower of good ideas can cause a flash-flood to wash away the roads your habits travel.

Government is the natural enemy of freedom.

Women naturally desire the same six things as I; they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.

If something needed to be written, if something needed to be polished, needed to be re-written, I was just handed pages.

Wouldn't it be great if we all grew up to be what we wanted to be? The world would be full of nurses, firemen, and ballerinas.

It's bad enough to feel insignificant, but it's unbearable to have it grained into your soul that you will never, can never, be anything but insignificant.

A popular government wields a moral force, which is infinitely superior to the physical force that the foreign government could summon to its assistance.