It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.
Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.
We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.
War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.
I think Americans generally are not used to working very hard, in terms of working for the collective. I think in our country we have taken individualism to its farthest reaches, possibly.
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
I've heard that our greatest cross to carry is ourselves how gravely we fall short.
When I was a kid, our family used to watch 'Bonanza.' I really liked having a Sunday night TV ritual.
