Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

A cat has a reputation to protect. If it had a halo, it would be worn cocked to one side.

We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow heartbeat of the social organism, a vast systole and diastole of concentrating wealth and compulsive redistribution.

How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.

All deductions having been made, democracy has done less harm, and more good, than any other form of government. It gave to human existence a zest and camaraderie that outweighed its pitfalls and defects. It gave to thought and science and enterprise the freedom essential to their operation and growth. It broke down the walls of privilege and class, and in each generation it raised up ability from every rank and place.

To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.