If the Settlement seeks its expression through social activity, it must learn the difference between mere social unrest and spiritual impulse.

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.

Love is the Raising SUN..

Léon Bloy wrote: 'Life holds only one tragedy: not to have been a saint

Don’t be afraid to take a chance.The worst that can happen is thatyou don’t succeed … this time.

Honour what is most beautiful about the past and build it into the promise of the future.

I dont theorize too much. I sort of let the experience sink in, and I have to discover what the character is by doing it, and having those thoughts that shes thinking.

If you're on a beach and a tsunami hits, you'll drown whether you're a small child or an Olympic swimmer. Some things will go bad no matter how good you are.

The photograph keeps open the instants which the onrush of time closes up forthwith; it destroys the overtaking, the overlapping, the metamorphosis of time.

I cannot allow another man to take what I already consider mine.

When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place.

She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.