Few men who have liberated themselves from the fear of God and the fear of death are yet able to liberate themselves from the fear of man.

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.

Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.

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

I have done my best. That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.

Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do.

I do not think that any civilization can be called complete until it has progressed from sophistication to unsophistication, and made a conscious return to simplicity of thinking and living.