“Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.”

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.

We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.

The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It’s the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.

As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.

The family is the nucleus of civilization.

Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.

It’s a treat to see the sun rise over the desert. What am I saying? It’s a treat to fire off a rocket car over the desert!

The marvellous instinct with which women are usually credited seems too often to desert them on the only occasions when it would be of any real use. One would say it was there for trivialities only

Critic, relent!Your hope for repentanceWill meet with disapppointment.For this is the life,Not desert tents,Not camel’s milk!

Look at you, you madman! Screaming you are thirsty and dying in a desert, when all around you there is nothing but water!

When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.

They make a desert and call it peace.

Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.

As our Father makes many a flower to bloom unseen in the lonely desert, [let us] do all that we can do, as under God’s eye, though no other eye ever take note of it.