To appear to be on the inside and know more than others about what is going on is a great temptation for most people. It is a rare person who is willing to seem to know less than he does ... Somehow, people seem to feel that it is belittling to their importance not to know more than other people.

How hard it is to project oneself into the future. We are always prone to think of the conditions which are with us today as being permanent conditions.

Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are and then make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that decision primarily for yourself because you can never really live anyone else's lie, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life and what you become yourself.

Nearly all great civilizations that perished did so because they had crystallized, because they were incapable of adapting themselves to new conditions, new methods, new points of view. It is as though people would rather die than change.

The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government.

Once your children are grown up and have children of their own, the problems are theirs and the less the older generation interferes the better.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.