America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

I dreamed night after night that everyone in the world was dead excepting myself, and that upon me rested the responsibility of making a wagon wheel.

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

Of all aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment.

Things that make us alike are finer and stronger than the things that make us different.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

Only in time of fear is government thrown back to its primitive and sole function of self-defense and the many interests of which it is the guardian become subordinate to that.

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

Social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty.

If you are 100% sure that you live, why don´t you live 100%?

How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics.

A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.

Sometimes enlightenment descends upon you when you least expect it...

You've either got it or you haven't.

Librarians as a race tend to be tedious.

I believe there's a God but I'm not too sure of his relevance.

With a black president, I can relax... I can dance in public... I can buy a whole watermelon now.

A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real.