the desire to enforce our own moral and spiritual criteria upon posterity is quite as strong as the desire to enforce them upon contemporaries.

Anyone who has not known that inestimable privilege can possibly realize what good fortune it is to grow up in a home where there are grandparents.

What its children become, that will the community become.

No human being, man, woman, or child, may safely be entrusted to the power of another; for no human being may safely be trusted with absolute power.

There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.

Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word "human."

People never move towards revolution; they are pushed towards it by intolerable injustices in the economic and social order under which they live.

It is necessary to grow accustomed to freedom before one may walk in it sure-footedly.

All political and religious systems have their root and their strength in the innate conservatism of the human mind, and its intense fear of autonomy.

Magic has a logic, like algebra. Once you get to know it, it's easy. If this, then that. You write with a pencil, you don't make frog soup with it.

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

Leader, bandits at 2 o'clock! Roger; it's only 1:30 now-what'll I do 'til then?

I've always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.

There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer.

Writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for wordlessness.

All our anxieties relate to time.

There is no evidence, that I am aware of, that points to a link between vaccines and developmental disability.

I should have a therapist. I have plenty to therapise about.

With it all independent I feel like we're doing it one person at a time turning people into believers one person at a time. Just that good old-fashioned grind, get out there, touch the people.