Benjamin Quotes

Words were different when they lived inside of you.

The modern world is not geared properly to the storage of goods.

I think writing books is a way for me to work out certain issues. I write about what matters to me, always.

I got to thinking that poems were like people. Some people you got right off the bat. Some people you just didn't get--and never would get.

If you want to be a writer, you don't want to live in a comfortable place.

What I am to be, I am now becoming.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.

If fathers aren't growing up, I would challenge them to want to be a father that is present in the home, so that their kids have that identity.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it.

Is the painter a plagiarist because he sets his palette to nature?

Take one thing with another, and the world is a pretty good sort of a world, and it is our duty to make the best of it, and be thankful.

Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.

Injuries too well remembered cannot heal.

Modern man's difficulties, dangerous beliefs and feelings of loneliness, spiritual emptiness,and personal weakness are caused by his illusions about, and separation from, the natural world.

Calculate a stock's price/earnings ratio yourself, using Graham's formula of current price divided by average earnings over the past three years.

An investment in education always pays the highest returns.

Love your Neighbour; yet don't pull down your Hedge.

If diplomacy has any chance to work, it must be coupled with a credible military threat.

The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons.

What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.

Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars.

As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it.

The Israelis wanted to sabotage the Palestinian - Palestinian reconciliation.

I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power.

If you give up your freedom for safety, you don't deserve either one

People are simply not willing to look at their problems honestly and admit that they have problems.

I like the idea of a proportional tax. That way you pay according to your ability.

The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right.

I would rather have it said, 'He lived usefully,' than, 'He died rich.'

Anyone who is going to establish a Palestinian state, anyone who is going to evacuate territories today, is simply giving a base for attacks to the radical Islam against Israel.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.

Taxes are indeed very heavy - We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness. Three times as much by our Pride. And four times as much by our Folly.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

Some will criticize me no matter what I do.

I think of success as reaching beyond ourselves and helping other people in specific ways.

Those who cannot themselves observe can at least acquire the observation of others.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

When I look at the human brain I'm still in awe of it.

Pooh is able to accomplish what he does because he is simpleminded.

None more deceive themselves than they who think their religion is true and genuine, thought it refines not their spirits and reforms not their lives.

I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.

Interest which blinds some People, enlightens others.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

What do lawyers learn in law school? They learn to win... What we've got to start thinking about is how do we solve problems.

"Sorry" only counts for that which it cannot alter.

Entrance into Heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion.

How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.