"An hour spent in deep contemplation is worth a year of unguided wandering. Remember this in moments of decisive trial — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

"It is a radiant truth that the universe speaks in the silent dialect of universal natural laws."

"A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted."

"More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments."

"Americans want government that is leaner, more efficient, and less intrusive into their personal lives."

"True knowledge is found not in possessing answers, but in continually asking the right questions. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows."

"An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."