Our freedom to discipline ourselves is a freedom we can lose if we don't use it.

The gratification of a thoughtless pleasure soon evaporates; the pleasure of a gratifying thought never ends.

Don't expect other nations to have a democracy like ours - they don't have enough lawyers.

Of all creatures on earth, we humans have the highest level of stupidity.

Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.

We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.

A good education prepares a child to be a good employee and a good citizen-in that order, with the importance of the former never exceeding the importance of the latter.