Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies

Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.

It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging. 

Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they are basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible. 

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me.