If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.

A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure.

In my opinion, economists and sociologists are the people to whom we ought to turn more than we do for instruction in the grounds and foundations of all rational decisions.

Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife.

No generalization is wholly true—not even this one.

Success. Is not the position where you are standing, but which direction you are going.

The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity.