“A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.”

Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.

Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.

America is the only country ever founded on a creed.

Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.

You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.

The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.

The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.

Thanks are the highest form of thought.

At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.

There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice

They see me as an ordinary guy, like a construction worker or the guy who delivers your piano.

If you want to have a good life you have to have some constructive outlet for your feelings.

Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket – The road to success is always under construction.

The road to success is always under construction.

The successful construction of all machinery depends on the perfection of the tools employed; and whoever is a master in the arts of tool-making possesses the key to the construction of all machines… The contrivance and construction of tools must therefore ever stand at the head of the industrial arts.

Problem-solving typically involves the construction of discriminative stimuli

I think it’s good that I had some experience of the real world before I became successful. You know, having to get up in the morning and going to work in construction.

We need to be weapons of mass construction, weapons of mass love. It’s not enough just to change the system. We need to change ourselves.