“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.”

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.

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.

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.

Serendipity is the way to make discoveries, by accident but also by sagacity , of things one is not in quest of.

Painting is self-discovery.

This [discovery of a cell-free yeast extract] will make him famous

The ‘Mythbusters’ crew, we monitor the Discovery boards, we look for the new ideas that are being forwarded on those boards, and we keep track of what’s going on, we keep updated.

The discovery of dance has changed my life in unimaginable ways.

Arithmetic starts with the integers and proceeds by successively enlarging the number system by rational and negative numbers, irrational numbers, etc…

Discovery is the joy.

Quantum physics really begins to point to this discovery. It says that you can’t have a Universe without mind entering into it, and that the mind is actually shaping the very thing that is being perceived.