I have spent most of my life most happily making plans for others to carry out.

The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.

Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.

Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause.

The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone.

Scratch a pessimist and you will often find a defender of privilege.

No one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter.

Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to proportion His blessings to our alms.

The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.

If the way of heaven be narrow, it is not long; and if the gate be straight, it opens into endless life.

Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.

We are victims of our history and our present. They place too many obstacles in the way of love. And we cannot enjoy even our differences in peace.

Don't let a bad review get you down. You can't always please everyone.

It is both a right and a responsibility of a democratic society to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest.

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman, I care not what his stamp may be in society; I care not what clothes he wears, or what culture he boasts.

Nothingness is the basis of everything.

If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, piousness is virtue paying tribute to itself.

One key to success is to have lunch at the time of day most people have breakfast.

Nature is God's Old Testament.

I'm not shooting every day of the week, which allows me to fly home to be with my kids for the weekends. That's how I keep it moving.