One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.

The farther we get away from the land, the greater our insecurity.

People are never so likely to be wrong as when they are organized. And they never have so little freedom. Perhaps that is why the people at large keep their freedom. People can be manipulated only when they are organized.

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.

The hardest thing in the world to do is to think, and that is why people do so little of it.

Two classes of people lose money; those who are too weak to guard what they have; those who win money by trick. They both lose in the end.

A man's real education begins after he has left school. True education is gained through the discipline of life.