Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.

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.

The greatest mistake a leader or anyone can make is to stay down after falling.

Free drinks have no carbs.

I swear I will do everything in my power to change the situation in Tibet where human rights are being suppressed. Tibet seeks freedom and democracy and we agree on those values.

Knowing what you don't know is more useful than being brilliant.

The most important eugenic policy at this time is to see that birth control is made equally available to all individuals in every class of society

I realized eventually that if I was really on top of what I was doing, I should be able to make photographs out of almost anything.

We want to get full value out of labour so that we may be able to pay it full value. It is use - not conservation - that interests us.

Be persistent. Understand the ways in which your hard work is going to be necessary to achieve the goals that you want.

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.

Journalists are getting big stories wrong, over and over again.