The function of government ought to be: make sure you have good water to drink, somebody picking up the garbage, good roads to drive on, enough electricity to turn your light bulbs and your record player on, and whatever smaller amounts of regulatory assistance is necessary to make this society
Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.
Drop out of school before your mind rots from our mediocre educational system.
It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.
The key to immortality is first to live a life worth remembering.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars.
The true test of a civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops?no, but the kind of man the country turns out.