“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”

“Who covets more is evermore a slave.”

“Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.”

“I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”

“Change is the end result of all true learning.”

“Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.”

“Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.”

“It’s so much easier to suggest solutions when you don’t know too much about the problem.”

“Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.”

“I’m kind of jealous of the life I’m supposedly leading.”