Even death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age.

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.

‎The only way Jesus can be our King is if we allow Him to be our Servant

I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.

...photography repeats itself unconsciously and unavoidably, producing stereotypes that then are repeated ad infinitum.

The Chinese say that water is the most powerful element, because it is perfectly nonresistant. It can wear away a rock, and sweep all before it.

Unlimit yourself: Stand in power, walk with intention.

Virtue is the health of the soul.

Every show, every audience is different, and I just love leaving the venue feeling like we all know each other a little bit better.

Mother Earth is very talented. She has produced Buddhas, bodhisattvas, great beings.

He who improvises can never make a perfect line of poetry.

Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I'm never not thinking of you