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.

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.

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.

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

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.

The chihuahua and the pink velour track suit. I think it's kind of an iconic look.

I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from.

You can't eat your friends and have them too

The best kind of book," said Barnaby, "is a magic book." "Naturally," said John.

How spiritually blind are men that they fail to see that we are bound together. We rise or fall together; we are dwarfed or godlike, free or chained, together.

Never trust an economist with your job. Learn about economics yourself. And make up your own mind about what might protect your job - and what might destroy it.

I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.

When the truths of love are planted firm, they won't be hard to find. And words of love I speak to you will echo in your mind.

If things were easy to find, they wouldn’t be worth finding.

Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world.