Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come greatharmony.

Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur

Donot wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shakeit, the more sour it grows.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

Weagree completely on everything, including the fact we don't see eye to eye.

Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.