As long as we continue to think we will be happy in the future, we will never be happy in the moment, and that is the same as saying that we will never be happy. If we think that our lives will be better when we get that better job or retire, stay or go, gain or lose weight, or when our children grow and leave or come back, we are putting off the happiness that there is in today.

The road to freedom is full of thorns and fire, yet happy is he who follows it!

One can't realize difficulty arriving at a momentous decision until one comes to do so.

I am more interested in the purpose of government than its mechanics-though the means should at least be good enough to lead to the ends desired.

One must scratch that part of the body or mind that itches.

Anyone who wants to be a leader must be the servant, not the boss, of those he wants to serve.

The system doesn't have to be pure, but it does have to work.