Stay away from philosophy, kids: it will ruin your mind.
You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.
Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief - and government.
In the end, I'm convinced we will all benefit if suspicion is replaced by discussion, innuendo by dialogue; if the emphasis in our debate turns from a search for talismanic criteria and neat but simplistic answers to an honest - more intelligent - attempt at describing the role religion has in our public affairs, and the limits placed on that role.
People asked me what I want as an epitaph: 'He tried'
The closed circle of materialism is clear to us now - aspirations become wants, wants become needs, and self-gratification becomes a bottomless pit.
The American people need no course in philosophy or political science or church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman.
I have to create in India a macroeconomic environment where the employment in aggregate can go up at a handsome rate. Once that happens, people losing jobs in one sector will not mean that they will become perpetually unemployed. From one sector, they can move on to other sectors.
I've always wanted to be a real universal artist, one that every type of audience could relate to.
No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There's so much other material to write about.
The State cannot get a cent for any man without taking it from some other man, and this latter must be a man who has produced and saved it. This latter is the Forgotten Man