“What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves.”

“The Netherlands is a sociable land where people respect each other. We fight each other with words, not with bullets.”

“No one can endure his own solitude.”

“Nothing troubled the charm and silence of this solitude. Making the most serious reflections on what we behold, and on our present position, I said to myself: Thus does life also pass away, now calm, now agitated, but at last the end is attained. Happy, ah, thrice happy they who can then look out to the never-ending future with calm and confidence, who can cast themselves on the bosom of God, the Center of our felicity.”

“The demands that good people make are upon themselves;
Those that bad people make are upon others.”

“What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation.”

“Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man's personal value is large or small.”

“Being sociable and affable with people brings kindness and friendship.”

“The fundamental premise of liberalism is the moral incapacity of the American people.”

“You have referred in your address to what your generosity has termed my ‘sacrifice’. I do not look upon it as such. If destiny had decreed that over the past few centuries the progress and the prosperity of the people of this beloved State, should be in the hands of the Wadeyars of Mysore, then that same destiny now ordains that the time is ripe for the people, now grown to full political stature in a free democratic Republic, to rule themselves …the rule of the Maharajas has indeed fulfilled its purpose, the purpose of making the people fit to rule themselves.”