According to the experience of all but the most accomplished jugglers, it is easier to keep one ball in the air than many.

I would put primary emphasis on a good standard of living equitably distributed. It can't be equal, but one that eliminates the terrible cruelty of poverty.

If people are hungry, ill-clad, unsheltered or diseased, nothing is so important as to remedy their condition.

Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

The miserable consumption of the poor is partly the result of the ostentatious demands of the rich. There isn't enough for both, and the latter get far more than they need...But could anything seriously be done about it?

Only foolish people are completely secure.

A good rule of conversation is never answer a foolish question.