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

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

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.

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.

Certain barriers do require a critical mass of action at the right time to overcome the inertia that is greater than incremental change.

Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny.

The meaning you apply to what has happened to you is your decision. There will be critics that have their version, but God didn’t call them to be your audience, someone else did.

I always thought being a gamer and someone who had a sense of responsibility to the game and to my teammates was the honorable thing.

I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.

I came in 11 years ago. I remember it like it was tomorrow

Who cares? If he is good to you? None of us ever find enough kindness in the world, do we?

If you've been there, no explanation is necessary. If you haven't, none is adequate.

We have one of those conversations where every thing clicks, meshes, corresponds, locks, where even our pauses, even our punctuation marks, seem to be nodding in agreement.

I don't collect anymore. Everything is so terribly expensive. I don't see anything I like anyhow.