As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remove ourselves.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.

I should tie myself to a particular system of society other than of socialism.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs. 

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

 Anger cannot be suppressed forever. Pressure cookers burst. Volcanoes erupt.

As long as I have life, as long as blood flows through the arms of mine, I shall not leave the cause of freedom.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed. 

John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.

Bad men are full of repentance.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.