Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.

If you have to compromise, be sure to compromise up.

...so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating and destructive effect upon society than the others.

There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.

Of course Mahatma Gandhi you might say did not have so much physical vigor but he certainly seemed to have extraordinary resistance, which perhaps is rather different from physical vigor.

it is always easier to do nothing than to try a new line of action.

I wonder if one of the penalties of growing older is that you become more and more conscious that nothing is very permanent.