Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

You are like my little dog; when people see you, they know I am nearby.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

The cure for boredom is curiosity.There is no cure for curiosity.

I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.