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Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap or automobiles and the enlarged arena of federal power, the national cash in area for prestige has grown, slowly being consolidated into a truly national system.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect.

I believe in grumbling, it is the politest form of fighting known.

Dignity belongs to the conquered.

At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.

No man or woman has achieved an effective personality who is not self disciplined. Such discipline must not be an end in itself, but must be directed to the development of resolute Christian character.

While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple.

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied but written off as trash. The twentieth century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

We all of us need assistance. Those who sustain others themselves want to be sustained. The Way of the Heart.

Don't take life seriously because you can't come out of it alive.

To have one's individuality completely ignored is like being pushed quite out of life like being blown out as one blows out a light.

Just do what you do best.

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far reaching consequence of submission to authority.