Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.
You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.
There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.
I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and thats to get rid of all my other desires.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.
We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
