Look at our society. Everyone wants to be thin, but nobody wants to diet. Everyone wants to live long, but few will exercise. Everybody wants money, yet seldom will anyone budget or control their spending.

I’m afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn’t fit that will become unnecessary.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.

I’m frugal. I’m not a very acquisitive woman. I never waste food. If you prepare your own food, you engage with the world, it tastes alive. It tastes good.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

I think one of the great things about the United States has been our ability to maintain a distinction between our military and domestic law enforcement.

Every utopia – let’s just stick with the literary ones – faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don’t fit in?

I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.

It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new ‚solution‘ to society’s ‚problems.‘

I think that people are tired. They’re tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don’t think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside.

Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That’s just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

In two decades I’ve lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own health and making sure that I’m eating right and getting exercise and watching the aches and pains. I want to be this really fly 80-90-year old.

Although I don’t have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Jiu Jitsu is a great workout both mentally and physically. You want to be strong for it and flexible for it.

You know people talk about federal money as if it falls from heaven. You know we thank heaven for it, but it came out of people’s pockets – and I’ve driven all over Washington, D.C., I cannot find the money tree.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that’s making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

I don’t have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I’m left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.

I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did – or did not do – to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

A good feeling for me is when you train, and then you put on fresh clothes. New clothes after a training session – you have this rush of endorphins from exercise that everybody gets, and then you get that nice feeling of fresh clothes. It’s a double whammy.

In today’s world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they’re cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

Politics have no relation to morals.

Money often costs too much.

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.

I have never thought it necessary to patronize the American people.

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

We never repent of having eaten too little.

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.