What threatens civilization today is not war, but the changing conception of life values entailed by certain political doctrines. Only by recapturing the dream of human freedom and restoring the importance of the common man's liberties can that undermining threat to modern civilization be averted

After all the allowances are made for the necessity of having a few supermen in our midst - explorers, conquerors, great inventors, great presidents, heroes who change the course of history - the happiest man is still the man of the middle class who has earned a slight means of economic independence, who has done a little, but just a little, for mankind and who is slightly distinguished in his community, but not too distinguished.

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.

In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.

By association with nature's enormities, a man's heart may truly grow big also.

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.

Life is too short to make an over-serious business out of it.