Much of the rest of the world has already learned some English. They pretty much understand the American way of doing things, because our culture has been ubiquitous and has been the 500-pound gorilla in the global economy. But the world is far more interrelated than ever before, and no one culture can thrive without the knowledge of how to function in other cultures.

Mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as mutual struggle.

Experience is something I always think I have until I get more of it.

Of all the agonies in life, that which is most poignant and harrowing--that which for the time annihilates reason, and leaves our whole organization one lacerated, mangled heart--is the conviction that we have been deceived where we placed all the trust of love.

If we have confidence in our own beliefs, we should not fear freedom of thought.

When it is not necessary to amend the Constitution, it is necessary not to amend the Constitution.

At bank, post office or supermarket, there is one universal law which you ignore at your own peril: the shortest line moves the slowest.