National events determine our ideals, as much as our ideals determine national events.

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.

A wise man never dwells in the past because he knows he belongs to the future.

When you don't have a vision or a plan for the future, your mind has no choice but to dwell in the past.

We are dancing on our irony as upon the top of glowing sparks.

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.

Freedom from Egypt should have meant freedom from idols for Israel.

For me, it is important to not just tell the audience how the story ended today, but to give a glimpse into how other people's stories might go on, in the future.

What will matter is not what you learned, but what you taught.

Older people sit down and ask, 'What is it?' but the boy asks, 'What can I do with it?'.