"We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we all take a little of each other everywhere."

"Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes."

"The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better."

"Great anger is more destructive than the sword"

"A human being is an animal suspended in webs of significance which he himself has spun."

"When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account."

"The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum."

"During these times, when crazy people are running the government, all you can do is laugh."

"Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too."

"I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty."

"Any new venture goes through the following stages: enthusiasm, complication, disillusionment, search for the guilty, punishment of the innocent, and decoration of those who did nothing."

"No one gives as much as he who gives hope."