I believe that peace is not merely an absence of war but the nurture of human life, and that in time this nurture would do away with war as a natural process.

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.

Help others to fulfill their dreams and you will fulfill yours.

If I want to get out of here, I have to be the one to save myself.

The philosopher is Nature's pilot - and there you have our difference to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Talking to mothers, always brings it home because they're so anxious to do everything they can for their kids and so tragic for them.

The first thing I see is the obligation to serve peace.

The destiny of nations depends on how they nourish themselves.

It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.

I think being in a band is probably the only job when you're actively encouraged to be out of it most of the time.

Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory.