Some people are foolish enough to imagine that wealth and power and fame satisfy our hearts: but they never do, unless they are used to create and distribute happiness in the world.

A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.

I hung about the dangerous frontier of "guess," avoiding with infinite trouble to myself and others the broad valley of reason.

Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life.

We, the people, are not free. Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means we choose between Tweedledee and Tweedledum. We elect expensive masters to do our work for us, and then blame them because they work for themselves and for their class.

If I could have only one of my senses then I would choose hearing, Then I wouldn't feel so all alone.

Making a mistake is falling down; failure is not getting up again.