Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?
My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.
There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France - I don't know about England - that are much much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.
I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients but even to strangers.
Happiness grows at our own firesides and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
Small debts are like small shot they are rattling on every side and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon of loud noise but little danger.
In Republics the great danger is that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently but he is willing in great crises to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
He who learns but does not think is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
Never was anything great achieved without danger.
The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.
If indeed a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes and yet the government of course is arming criminals.
The conservative movement today is like that tall ship with its proud captain: strong accomplished but veering off course into the dangerous and uncharted waters of big government republicanism.
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest insane intolerable.
Potentially a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
Government is not reason it is not eloquent it is force. Like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
I went to my son's graduation this weekend and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.
You have a good many little gifts and virtues but there is no need of parading them for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long and the great charm of all power is modesty.
Good things happen when you meet strangers.