Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

A democrat need not believe that the majority will always reach a wise decision. He should however believe in the necessity of accepting the decision of the majority, be it wise or unwise, until such a time that the majority reaches another decision.

Always remember that true happiness is not in getting what you want, but wanting what you already have. He who dies with the most toys is still dead. What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible. Even if all are miserable, all will believe themselves happy, because the government will tell them that they are so.

This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second chance were offered me.

The first step in wisdom, as well as in morality, is to open the windows of the ego as wide as possible.