My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities. I am truly a 'lone traveler' and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude…

A man's value to the community depends primarily on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.

Happiness is a hard master - particularly other people's happiness.

Have absolutely no sense of guilt about being happy and successful if you operate honestly and with a sense of social responsibility.

I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it's the government's role to provide everything.

Until the great mobs could be educated into a moral sense, someone must cry: Thou shalt not!

Jesus taught that we should give to the poor and support widows, but he never said that we should elect a government that would take money from our neighbor's hand and give it to the poor.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.

Don't do anything that you wouldn't feel comfortable reading about in the newspaper the next day.

It might be more worthwhile if we stopped wringing our hands and started ringing our congressmen.

Flies spread disease — keep yours zipped.