Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.

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.

What a blessed truth to understand that, in the middle of all of our difficulties and calamities, we have a refuge.

It's not the darkness that people fear; it's what they imagine into the darkness.

The American people know that we cannot spend our way to prosperity.

In Japanese sushi restaurants, a lot of sushi chefs talk too much.

My favorite part is just being able to say and do things that you can't do in real life, and behaving in a way that's just not really acceptable, in the real world.

Violence ravaged my life. I was a victim of hatred, and I have dedicated my life to reversing that hatred.

We believe people are basically good. We believe everyone has something to contribute. We encourage you to treat others the way that you want to be treated.

I saw a star slide down the sky Blinding the north as it went by Too buring and too quick to hold Too lovely to be bought or sold Good only to make wishes on And then forever to be gone

Languages, like our bodies, are in a perpetual flux, and stand in need of recruits to supply those words that are continually falling, through disuse.

I blame Walt Disney; well he has to find voice actors better than me somehow doesn't he?