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

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.

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.

Appearance matters, we see your presentation before we get a chance to sample the substance within. You might miss a chance for the latter.

Our thoughts and our mind-sets greatly affect our perception of what life is really about

If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.

I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.

Black-and-white gives you that sort of parallel world. Also, it's very close to the condition of dreaming, to the unconscious.

America doesn't respect anything but money. What our people need is a few millionaires.

In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.

Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.

Justice is having and doing what is one's own.

I didn't want the public in my personal life at all - I thought that people might perceive me as too normal, and I'd lose that larger-than-life rock star persona. You've got to protect that!