As democracy modifies our conception of life, it constantly raises the value and function of each member of the community, however humble he may be.

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.

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.

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.

Don't give me any money, don't give me any people, but give freedom, and I'll give you a movie that looks gigantic.

If you can talk the talk but cant walk the walk youll look like a fool. That's the risk but with great risk comes great reward.

Take time enough for your meals, and eat them in company whenever you can. There is no need for hurry in life—least of all when we are eating.

I have a great career, and I have wonderful fans who really are supportive and loyal - because I'm not hiding anything from them.

When we desire or solicit anything, our minds run wholly on the good side or circumstances of it; when it is obtained, our minds run wholly on the bad ones.

With respect to ingenious subconsciousness, I think, philosophers might well rival poets.

The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.

No one to hear, you might as well scream.

Changing behaviours begins with evolving beliefs.

Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.