God save me from fools with a little philosophy—no one is more difficult to reach.

The philosopher's school, ye men, is a surgery: you ought not to go out of it with pleasure, but with pain. For you are not in sound health when you enter.

Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of men's desires, but by the removal of desire.

Man, what are you talking about? Me in chains? You may fetter my leg but my will, not even Zeus himself can overpower.

But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window--maybe rearrange all the furniture.

Wealth and power and life, all that men build up and guard with such effort, is only worth anything through the joy with which it can all be cast away.

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.

Equestrian and sailing are sports for people growing up on the mean streets of Connecticut.

I know of nothing that I feel is of so great value in life as to be obedient to the counsel and advice of the Lord, and of His servants in this our day.

Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions.

Our system is a mess, but 90 percent of America has insurance coverage.

In daylight I belong to the world . . . in the night to sleep and eternity. But in the dusk I'm free from both and belong only to myself . . . and you

What is more useful than fire? Yet if any one prepares to burn a house, it is with fire that he arms his daring hands.