Heretofore there has always been in the history of the world a comparatively unoccupied land westward, into which the crowded countries of the East have poured their surplus populations.

It may be easily shown, and is of no small significance, that the two great ideas of which the Anglo-Saxon is the exponent are having a fuller development in the United States than in Great Britain.

Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.

The city has become a serious menace to our civilization It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.

Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster.

Long before the thousand millions are here, the mighty centrifugal tendency, inherent in this stock and strengthened in the United States, will assert itself.

In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake.

The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.

We have seen... that, although England is by far the richest nation of Europe, we have already outstripped her in the race after wealth, and we have only begun the development of our vast resources.

There are many in the Church as well as out of it who need to learn that Christianity is neither creed nor a ceremonial, but a life vitaly connected with a loving Christ.

Our aristocracy, unlike that of Europe, is open to all comers.

Paradoxes are conflicting choices or conditions that demand equal attention.

She checked herself in the mirror. She was a roadmap of violence.

I want to inspire people to change the world. That's something that I feel that I'm meant to do here... really going to change the world. I asked God to make me immortal so I can do it.

When you kill someone by chopping off their head, rolling 'em up in a carpet and burning it, you'd better make sure they're dead!

If something doesn't creep into a drawing that you're not prepared for, you might as well not have drawn it.

There are no bad boys. There is only bad environment, bad training, bad example, bad thinking.

There exists a limit to the force even the most powerful may apply without destroying themselves. Judging this limit is the true artistry of government. Misuse of power is the fatal sin.

I have gotten used to working in the dark and I dig it.

The world is R-rated, and no one's checking IDs

For if I am to love truly and freely, I must be able to give something that is truly my own to another. If my heart does not first belong to me, how can I give it to another?