I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

Hoover was a patriot in his heart, but he definitely exceeded his power.

If you’re in business or politics, you need to have an intense understanding of what’s going on around you.

The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It’s a battle you can’t hope to win – it’s a battle that’s going to go on forever. It’s part of the human condition.

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

Women. They are a complete mystery.

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

It has not yet become obvious to me that there’s no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there’s no real problem, but I’m not sure there’s no real problem.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

The very phrase ‚foreign affairs‘ makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.

I’m the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it’s still about the work.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

All you have in business is your reputation – so it’s very important that you keep your word.

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain can be determined in any science, since one or another set of hypotheses may always be devised which will appear to supply new difficulties.

It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

As a Western, ‚The Magnificent Seven‘ was a pretty good film. I don’t think it was as interesting or as multi-faceted as ‚Seven Samurai.‘

There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.

Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them.

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

I don’t measure my success anymore by the Grammys. I can’t because I’ll just end up crushed.

Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.

Why should I care about posterity? What’s posterity ever done for me?

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.

History should be written as philosophy.

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.

As abhorrent as some of this content can be, I do think that it gets down to this principle of giving people a voice.

Thinking fragments reality – it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

I don’t think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.

If you judge, investigate.

History is more or less bunk.

The Second Amendment is just as important as all the other Amendments.

In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.

In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

I guess every single word I’ve ever said is going to be dissected now.