There's no such thing as no chance.

My opposition to war is not based upon pacifist or non-resistant principles. It may be that the present state of civilization is such that certain international questions cannot be discussed; it may be that they have to be fought out. But the fighting never settles the question. It only gets the participants around to a frame of mind where they will agree to discuss what they were fighting about.

Thinking is hard work, which is why so few people do it.

Where people work longest and with least leisure, they buy the fewest goods. No towns were so poor as those of England where the people, from children up, worked fifteen and sixteen hours a day. They were poor because these overworked people soon wore out -- they became less and less valuable as workers. Therefore, they earned less and less and could buy less and less.

It is regrettable that people think about our monetary system, and of our economic structure, only in times of depression.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

At that point the child is eligible for adoption and can be placed with a family that can love the child and can raise the child.