We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.

We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.

Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common read more

Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

It's hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on read more

It's hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side

In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug and we shall want to live read more

In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug and we shall want to live more musically

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, "At my read more

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, "At my age, I don't even buy green bananas."

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

That which costs little is less valued.

That which costs little is less valued.