Buying and selling is essentially antisocial.

If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.

Is a man satisfied, merely because he is perfumed himself, to mingle with a malodorous crowd?

The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.

No republic can long exist unless a substantial equality in the wealth of citizens prevails.

Equal wealth and equal opportunities of culture have simply made us all members of one class.

Competition, which is the instinct of selfishness, is another word for dissipation of energy, while combination is the secret of efficient production.

Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us.

The nation guarantees the nurture, education, and comfortable maintenance of every citizen from the cradle to the grave.

Hold the period of youth sacred to education, and the period of maturity, when the physical forces begin to flag, equally sacred to ease and agreeable relaxation.

I first saw the light in the city of Boston in the year 1857.

No one ever swung too slowly.

If you consistently and persistently do the things that other successful people do, nothing in the world can stop you from being a big success also.

I just have so many scripts to read!

Me and my team always work so hard outside that square circle.

I dont claim to be a journalist. I hold myself to higher standards of transparency and disclosure.

I don't think the press are vindictive. They can write what they want

A family is one of nature's solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.

My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.

Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.

When you truly love yourself, you don't have enemies. They may hate you but you're too big to hate them back.