It is as easy for most of us to keep from stealing our dinners as it is to digest them, and there is quite as much voluntary morality involved in one process as the other.

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.

My mother always said 'Don't bother other people.' I think that's good advice.

I have to go, " I say, helpless.What makes you say the opposite of what every cell in your body wants you to say?

You can prepare for any challenge, if you daily nurture your mental, emotional, physical and spiritual well-being.

Flowers have the greatest talent in converting an ordinary place into a magical palace!

I don't want my grandchildren to go through what I went through

Every single person has a story that will break your heart. And if you're paying attention, many people... have a story that will bring you to your knees. Nobody rides for free.

I find myself in a new and strange position here: President, cabinet, Gen. Scott, and all deferring to me. By some strange operation of magic I seem to have become the power of the land.

Na razrusha'ya. I am not ruined. E'ya razrushost. I am ruination.

Now God has never shouted out to me. I've never heard God speak audibly. He doesn't have to.

What're quantum mechanics?" "I don't know. People who repair quantums, I suppose.