We are all motivated far more than we care to admit by characteristics inherited from our ancestors which individual experiences of childhood can modify, repress, or enhance, but cannot erase.

We can never achieve absolute truth but we can live hopefully by a system of calculated probabilities.

What the Nation must realize is that the home, when both parents work, is non-existent. Once we have honestly faced that fact, we must act accordingly.

The children are always the chief victims of social chaos.

We have forgotten that democracy must live as it thinks and think as it lives.

Once the pursuit of truth begins to haunt the mind, it becomes an ideal never wholly attained.

Tension is a prerequisite for creative living.

Every person should embrace those [dogmas] that he, being the best judge of himself, feels will do most to strengthen in him love of justice.

In every marriage more than a week old there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find and continue to find grounds for marriage.

I learned that true love turns the other cheek, does not take a wrong into account, loves all people regardless of their indifference or hostility.

The soul of our politics is the commitment to ending domination.

Most of what we acquire materially is found to not be worth what we must pay spiritually.

Jeff [Gordon] doesn't sit down and explain things. We don't sit and have meetings where I'm the student. He really teaches by example. I've learned a lot on and off the racetrack.

As for the common men apart, Who sweat to keep their common breath, And have no hour for books or art-- What dreams have these to hide from death!

Even in poverty I lived like a king for I tell you that nobility is the thing that makes a king

Come. We must go deeper with no justice and no jokes.

I think that the boy-woman is a very strong image and a lot of fascinating women are like that: Gala [Dalí].