No one so poignantly realizes the failures in the social structure as the man at the bottom, who has been most directly in contact with those failures and has suffered most.

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.

There is no adversity that cannot bear a gift and no gift that cannot bring adversity.

Big dreams only come true when you believe and have the courage to pursue them.

Every affair is a fairy tale or a tragedy.

Introverts are more effective leaders of proactive employees. When you have a creative, energetic work force, an introvert is going to draw out that energy better.

My mom's always saying really smart things... like, you probably heard this one, 'Why buy the cow when the milk has HPV?' Wish I'd listened to that one.

There were no formerly heroic times, and there was no formerly pure generation. There is no one here but us chickens, and so it has always been.

I would say 90 percent of Christians do not have a worldview, in other words a view of the world, based on the Scripture and a relationship with God.

We can't reach old age by another man's road.

Many people think that we have no shared value system in the world today but we actually do.

You never know what's going to happen with television these days.