Much of the insensibility and hardness of the world is due to the lack of imagination which prevents a realization of the experiences of other people.

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.

If education were the same as information, the encyclopedias would be the greatest sages in the world.

All laughing comes from misapprehension. Rightly looked at there is no laughable thing under the sun.

It was my Uncle George who discovered alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.

Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.

A thorough-paced antiquary not only remembers what all other people have thought proper to forget, but he also forgets what all other people think is proper to remember.

After all, a job isn't worth doing unless you enjoy it.

I judge people very quickly.

Meditation is really a non-doing. It is the only human endeavor I know of being where you already are.

We make our tools, and then they shape us.

I met The Beatles and Stones at the same time, because Michael Cooper was doing several of their album covers.