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.

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.

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

Social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty.

I know what's like to be young and have atrocious spelling, spelling words all backwards, mixing up numbers, addresses. and things like that.

The absolute bottom line in coaching is organization and preparing for practice.

The nice thing about living in a small town is that when you don't know what you're doing, someone else does.

Now, Max, I think we both know your parents aren't missionaries." I opened my eyes wide. "No? Well, for God's sake, don't tell them. They'd be crushed. Thinking they're doing the Lord's work and all.

If I want to be a loving, generous, giving person, I'm not going to test the waters. I'm simply going to be a loving, generous, giving person.

The most important attribute a player must have is mental toughness.

It's probably why the 330,000 members of the fraternal order of police endorsed Donald Trump as the next president of the United States of America, because they see his commitment to them.

We [The Replacements] formed as a rock and roll band, and that was the path we chose to take. Whenever we deviated from it we felt, unless everybody was into it, there was tension.

Play the gayest tunes in your books, play them loud and keep on playing them, and never mind if a bullet goes through a trombone, or even a trombonist, now and then.

I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me