The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Some people die at age 25 and aren't buried until they are 75.

One can only live while one is intoxicated with life; as soon as one is sober it is impossible not to see that it is all a mere fraud and a stupid fraud! That is precisely what it is: there is nothing either amusing or witty about it, it is simply cruel and stupid.

My anger is more likely to do me more harm than your wrong.

Sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud; and after summer evermore succeeds barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold: so cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he as imagined, he will meet with success unexpectedly in common hours.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.

Vigor is found in the man who has not yet grown old, and discretion in the man who is not too young.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

Everything good is costly and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things. It will cost you your innocence, your illusions, your certainty.

Fundamentally, there are only to ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion — the technique of the army and the modern totalitarian state. The other is voluntary cooperation — the technique of the marketplace.

To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.

The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.

You don't have to be big or well known to be great.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think.

In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.

I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.

Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles in the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.

Films, football, beer, and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you do or as fast. There is a time when you didn't know what you know today.

We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall be given a square deal.

The overwhelming importance of the atmosphere means that there are no longer any frontiers to defend against pollution, attack, or propaganda. It means, further, that only by a deep patriotic devotion to one’s country can there be a hope of the kind of protection of the whole planet, which is necessary for the survival of the people of other countries.

You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.