“Fortunate are the people whose roots are deep.”

We are all motivated far more than we care to admit by characteristics inherited from our ancestors which individual experiences of childhood can modify, repress, or enhance, but cannot erase.

We can never achieve absolute truth but we can live hopefully by a system of calculated probabilities.

What the Nation must realize is that the home, when both parents work, is non-existent. Once we have honestly faced that fact, we must act accordingly.

The children are always the chief victims of social chaos.

Tension is a prerequisite for creative living.

Once the pursuit of truth begins to haunt the mind, it becomes an ideal never wholly attained.

We have forgotten that democracy must live as it thinks and think as it lives.

While earning your daily bread, be sure you share a slice with those less fortunate.

I have been fortunate to collaborate with people who have been open to discussion. If I tell them something, they have always explained to me why they want it the other way.

Politicians are there to try to deal with stuff, but sometimes it’s both fortunate and unfortunate that people like us have more… not involvement, but more power in the stuff that we say.

How unfortunate that we tend to miss the ones who leave but neglect the ones who stay.

Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.

But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first of all: that all human affairs are a wheel which, as it turns, does not allow the same men always to be fortunate.

How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don’t think.

I’ve been fortunate. I don’t pick scripts. Scripts pick me.